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Our lab is about a ball that rolls down from the ramp (the book) collides with another ball (sitting at edge of table) that is at rest and the momentum is transfer to the other ball and other ball drops from the table so we can set up a bomber problem. We will be collecting data by using vivfdat and the conservtion of momentum theroem.

Ball 1 (the one that is rolling down the ramp) = baseball .129 kg Ball 2 (at rest) = golf ball .045 materials: carbon paper, tape, meter stick, plum drop, book for ramp, ramp, some food for us, T $, video camera, golfball, baseball Safety precaution: Make sure no one throws the baseball or golfball at other people.

Our Experiment is an inelastic collision to see if momentum is conserved after a baseball goes down an ramp and hit an stationary golfball falling off an edge of a table. The baseball will be release at the top of the ramp made from books and a piece of wood going down to hit a golfball at the edge. Both the balls will hit and both fall over the table. We will use meters stick to measure the distance each ball went and do bomber problem to solve the velocities of both. Then we will use the momentum theroem to find the momentum of the 2 objects and see if the momentum before the collision was conserved after the collsion. [|MVI_4107.AVI]



Conclusion:

In our experiment our momentum was not conserved as the data after the collision didn't have the same momentum as before the collision. Sources of error that made our calculation off could probably be the wrong calculation of the incline or the lack of data for the incline to properly solve the problem. Another source of error could be a misinterpretation of measurment that could of changed the solution by a little bit or alot causing the rest of the calculation to be wrong.