{"id":4161,"date":"2015-06-16T19:04:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T19:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swatlibraries.org\/projects\/speed\/anna\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2024-01-19T19:10:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:10:44","slug":"astro-blaster-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2015\/06\/astro-blaster-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Astro-Blaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Astro-blaster.jpg\" alt=\"Astro-Blaster Demo Picture\" width=\"253\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Purpose: Illustrate principles of conservation of momentum<br \/>\nand energy, specifically during the creation of a supernova. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Hold tip of AstroBlaster as shown; release when hanging straight<br \/>\ndown. Blasted capsule can reach heights of over 5 times the drop height. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">May consider wearing protective goggles for this one.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Location: L02, section B5<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,6,67],"tags":[91,114,222,539],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5903,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions\/5903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}