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Name Anthony Cervantes Date 09/17/2023 Class PHYSICS_011 Conservation of Momentum Purpose To discover what happens to the total momentum when objects collide. Connections to What You Already Know About in Life You might think of conservation as being careful with how much water or gas you use. Or of conservation of the environment. But conservation can also mean that conditions before and after an event do not change. These actually are almost the same meaning: when we talk about conserving resources, we want as little change as possible. Vocabulary Elastic collision, inelastic collision, momentum Background In science we talk about laws of conservation of mass, energy, or momentum. These are all laws that examine the state or status of a quantity before and after an event and they predict that within a confined system, the state will not have changed. Conservation of momentum means that the total momentum of any group of objects before an event is the same as it is afterwards. No momentum has been lost and none has been gained. Although collisions may be elastic or inelastic, and even if some balls bounce off at greater velocity than they started with, energy really is conserved, and total momentum remains constant. Procedure 1. Start Virtual Physics and select Conservation of Momentum from the list of assignments. The lab will open in the Mechanics laboratory. 2. The laboratory will be set up with two balls of same mass on a table. You will perform four experiments to look at the momentum of the system by looking at the momentum of each ball within the system. 3. Trial 1: Two moving balls. The masses of the balls are the same. The velocities of the balls are also the same magnitude but in opposite directions, towards each other. The balls start out separated by 10 meters. Click the Start button to watch them collide and click the Pause button a few seconds after they bounce off each other. Record the final velocity for each ball from the display panel below the table in the data table below. You can display the velocity of the second ball by clicking on the ball, or clicking on the Tracking arrows to change the display. Trial 1 Mas s (kg) Velocity before (m/s) Velocity after (m/s) Momentum before (mass × v before ) Momentum after (mass × v after ) Ball 1 10 -10 10 -100 100 Ball 2 10 10 -10 100 -100 pg. 1 - Conservation of Momentum © Beyond Labz , all rights reserved
Name Anthony Cervantes Date 09/17/2023 Class PHYSICS_011 Total Momentum = 0 0 4. Trial 2: One initially moving ball. Click the Reset button to reset the experiment . Using the Parameters Palette, change the mass of Ball 1 to 15 kg, and the mass of Ball 2 to 5 kg. Uncheck the Balls Same Mass and Diameter box to be able to change each mass separately. Set the velocity of Ball 1 to 10 m/s and the velocity of Ball 2 to 0 m/s. Click the Start button to watch the balls collide. Click the Pause button a few seconds after they bounce off each other. Record the final velocity of each ball in the data table below. Trial 2 Mas s (kg) Velocity before (m/s) Velocity after (m/s) Momentum before (mass × v before ) Momentum after (mass × v after ) Ball 1 15 -10 5 -150 75 Ball 2 5 0 15 0 75 Total Momentum = -150 150 5. Trial 3: Two connected balls. Click the Reset button to reset the experiment. Set the velocity of ball 2 to 0 m/s, and change the Elasticity to 0 to make the balls inelastic. Click the Start button to watch the balls collide. Click the Pause button a few seconds after they bounce off each other. Record the final velocity of each ball in the data table below. Trial 3 Mass (kg) Velocity before (m/s) Velocity after (m/s) Momentum before (mass × v before ) Momentum after (mass × v after ) Ball 1 10 -10 5 -100 50 Ball 2 10 0 5 0 50 Total Momentum = -100 100 6. Trial 4: Choose your own variables. Click the Reset button to reset the experiment . Click on the red Recording button to start recording data. Choose your own masses and velocities for each ball. Try it with the balls initially traveling in the same direction, but with one of the balls traveling faster than the other. Switch the elasticity to 0 again to observe an inelastic collision. Predict what you think the resulting velocities might be. Test this prediction. Record the data. Trial 4 Mas s (kg) Velocity before (m/s) Velocity after (m/s) Momentum before (mass × v before ) Momentum after (mass × v after ) Ball 1 15 15 11 225 165 Ball 2 10 5 11 50 110 pg. 2 - Conservation of Momentum © Beyond Labz , all rights reserved
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