Question: Please fill in this table with made up numbers Elastic Collision Repeat experiment for the following trials: One stationary glider, one mobile glider, equal masses

Please fill in this table with made up numbers

Elastic Collision

Repeat experiment for the following trials:

  1. One stationaryglider, one mobileglider, equal masses
  2. One stationary glider bigger mass, is hit by one mobile glider (small mass)
  3. One stationary glider small mass, is hit by one mobileglider (big mass)
  4. Two mobile gliders, equal masses
  5. Two mobile gliders, unequal masses

  1. Mass of the gliders: m1= m2 = 201.61 kg, uncertaintym= 0.01 kg

  1. Velocities of the gliders (from Pasco Capstone): The software provides you with speed (always positive), not velocity, meaning there is no sign associated to the velocity, you must introduce the velocities (not speed) in the table with the correct sign. Consider right as a positive direction.

Keep in mind that momentum is a vector, so use appropriate signs to indicate direction; assign appropriate + or signs to your momentum, the same you did for the velocities.

m1 (kg) m2 (kg) v1i (m/s) v2i (m/s) v1f (m/s) v2f (m/s)
201.62 201.62 0 0.8 0.5 0
201.62 216.52 0 1.33 0.24 0
216.52 201.62 0 1.79 1.18 0
201.62 201.62 0 1.61 1.71 0
251.56 201.62 0 1.51 1.68 0

  1. Momenta: p = m* v

p1i(kg m/s) p2i(kg m/s) p1f(kg m/s) p2f(kg m/s) p(kg m/s)
0.201() 01608 (0.201*0.8)

How do the momentum changes of the gliders compare? What is the total momentum before and after the collision? Was momentum conserved in the collision to within the accuracy of your measurements?

  1. Energy:

Compute the kinetic energy =12of each glider before and after the collision. Since2

kinetic energy is a scalar, only positive numbers will be involved. Was kinetic energy conserved in the collision? If not, how much energy was lost? What became of this energy?

KE1i (J) KE2i (J) KE1f (J) KE2f (J) KE (J)
0
0
0

Is momentum conserved in this type of collision? Is kinetic energy conserved? If not, how much is lost? What becomes of the lost energy?

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