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- Purpose: Illustrate principles of conservation of momentum
and energy, specifically during the creation of a supernova.
- Hold tip of AstroBlaster as shown; release when hanging straight
down. Blasted capsule can reach heights of over 5 times the drop height.
- May consider wearing protective goggles for this one.
- Location: L02, section B5
- Purpose: Demonstrate properties of gravitational potential
energy.
- Balls start moving and end with identical velocities, but ball on longer track traverses path more quickly.
- Prove that balls end with identical velocities by showing they fall the same distance from the end of the track. Use carbon paper to show location of impact.
- Located in L02, section B2