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A-1 ABSTRACT Title: Linear Momentum Date: 10/23/2023 Author: Luke Dang Lab partners: Claire Drucker Class, Section & Lab group: PHYS 244-203 Group 3 In this experiment, gaining an understanding of the conservation of linear momentum was explored using carts on a track and a motion sensor. The experiment was broken up into ten different momentum measurements, the first five using magnetic carts which would simulate elastic collisions and the second five runs using carts that would Velcro together upon collision which simulated inelastic collisions. Each run, a weight was put into either the first cart or the second cart, which had an effect on the overall momentum of the collision. The weights were half a kilogram. During the experiment, the motion of the carts were captured using the PASCO sensor. This captured velocity. From velocity, details such as momentum and energy could be derived using excel. What was found in the elastic collisions was that, when the first cart collided with the second cart, the momentum decreased as the weight increased. The inverse is true when the weight of the first cart increased but the weight of the second cart stayed the same. This is evident by looking at run 4 and 5 of the elastic collisions. The initial momentum for run 4 was .15 and for run 5 it was .16. This is intuitive because the weight of the first cart was increasing. Similar ideas and concepts were pulled for when the carts had Velcro to simulate the inelastic collisions.

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