Cart 1 Lab Report

The ball now has kinetic energy. Kinetic energy like momentum in that it comes from the mass of the object and its velocity. Kinetic energy was transferred from the plunger to the ball just like momentum was but only if the collision was elastic. During and elastic collision kinetic energy is conserved. The balls kinetic energy is half of its momentum squared. This means the balls momentum is its mass multiplied by velocity, and then it is squared and divided by two. If the velocity or speed of the ball is reduced by one half then the overall kinetic energy is reduced by a factor of four (Kirkpatrick and Wheeler p.106)

The friction between

Crumple zones are designed to absorb the energy from the impact during a traffic collision by controlled deformation. This energy is much greater than is commonly realized. A 2,000 kg (4,409 lb) car travelling at 60 km/h (37 mph) (16.7 m/s), before crashing into a thick concrete wall, is subject to the same impact force as a front-down drop from a height of 14.2 m (47 ft) crashing on to a solid concrete surface. Increasing that speed by 50% to 90 km/h (56 mph) (25 m/s) compares to a fall from 32 m (105 ft) - an increase of 125%. This is because the stored kinetic energy (E) is given by E = (1/2) mass × speed squared. It increases by the square of the impact velocity.

“Standard physics has no explanation for this and an error has not yet been found… There is no explanation for this behavior in standard physics because it violates the conservation of momentum, and Shawyer 's own attempt to explain it using special relativity is not convincing, as this

Are forth step was the basketball to be hit by the tennis ball and fall through a hoop. This step had potential and kinetic energy and force. The tennis ball used the force from the baseball to hit the basketball. The basketball was storing up potential energy while the rest of the machine was running. When the tennis ball hit the basketball the potential energy was released. As the basketball was falling through the hoop it had kinetic energy.

Momentum is the mass of an object times it’s velocity. The velocity of an object would be it’s rate and change of direction. A collision occurs when two or more objects collide with each other. This causes the kinetic energy, the energy of motion, to be transferred

In a head-on collision, the car and its restrained driver (or passenger) come to a rapid stop while

However, if you saw two balls or blocks hitting each other in a Rube Goldberg machine, you'd be seeing momentum being transferred. All Rube Goldberg devices also illustrate conservation of energy. Conservation of energy says energy is neither created nor destroyed, it only moves from one place to another, or transfers from one type to another. Whatever energy is put into the device at one end of the chain reaction, transfers all the way to the final action. You can imagine it like an unending line of energy moving from the beginning to the end of the

2. (5 pts) List and explain the names and affiliations of the various characters/stakeholders in this story – I’m looking for us to use the story to map out the complexities that are generally associated with solving public health puzzles – the stakeholders you list and explain here should apply to many of the cases we consider going forward.

To test Newton’s seconds law if whether changing the mass or the force affects the acceleration of an object or a trolley in this case to increase or decrease.

Because the smaller car has a smaller mass, you will require less kinetic energy to stop it compared to the larger car which requires more kinetic energy because of its larger mass.

From the first test, which had the dummies sitting upright, and the data was: 41ft/sec, 54 milisec collision time, and 21g-force exerted on the

If two vehicles were traveling at the same speed and same acceleration, both might crash with the front of the car and go back slightly until the car stops moving, so the wreckage might be at the West of Van Buren. One of the cars is a Cadillac Escalade and its mass is 2630 kilograms, and the smart car's mass was 816 kilograms. The Cadillac was coming in from the west on Van Buren and the smart car was coming in from the east on Van Buren. I believe the wreckage might be on the West because the Cadillac has more mass, it will do more damage to the smart car. Even though they both were going on the same speed and acceleration, the car with the biggest mass will definitely destroy the car with the less mass. For example, during

Some of this energy is transferred to the other player, but if they are properly setting the pick that player should not move. Since both players come essentially to rest, we can say that the energy was lost through and inelastic collision.

HYPOTHESIS: Without the effects of friction the momentum will be conserved in the isolated system. In all three experiments the momentum before the interaction will equal the momentum after the interaction.