air rifle & pistol used to calculate pellet velocity from momentum considerations
Fire a pellet of known mass into a lump of plasticene of known mass which is free to move on a frictionless air the low velocity of the plasticene plus pellet and use conservation of momentum to calculate the high velocity of the pellet before it embeds in the plasticene. Never point guns at people.
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Photo credit: © sciencephotos / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: air, experiment, laboratory, momentum, pellet, physics, pistol, plasticene, rifle, school, velocity
