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Categories: Educational Labware
For demonstrating the principle of conservation of momentum and showing
that momentum is a vector quantity having direction as well as
magnitude. The apparatus comprises the following items.
1. A curved wooden runway and its highest point, having a groove down which a steel ball may be rolled.
2. An object sphere support. This is an adjustable device which attaches
to the mounting plate of the runway and will support a ball either
exactly opposite the end of the runway for head-on collision or slightly
offset for oblique impacts.
3. A plumb-bob for making the plumb line.
4. Two spheres (steel ball bearing 19 mm. diameter.
Collision in Two Dimensions ALTEC Laboratory Equipments and ALTEC Laboratory Instruments Tenders.