University of Fort Hare
Explore conservation of momentum through collisions between two carts.
Laboratory information
Conservation of Momentum is a law of physics that describes how momentum, which characterizes motion, does not change in an isolated collection of objects, and its total remains constant.
In this remote laboratory you will be able to make two carts collide in an elastic or inelastic collision, and varying certain experimental variables such as the mass of the carts. You will thus be able to experimentally test whether the total momentum changes or not after the collision.
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Students use the University of Fort Hare Conservation of Momentum remote lab to compare elastic and inelastic cart collisions, calculate velocity ratios, test model assumptions, and explain real-data limitations.
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