Launch Lab, a conservation of momentum experiment

[@antonyshigin4977]

Really interesting.... it helped me a lot in understanding the conservation of momentum...

[@AbhishekSingh-yx5qb]

Awesome setup.

[@Inndjkaawed2922]

Awesome experiment

[@robertpitt8418]

Metal ball takes longer to repell because of the waight - which leaves more force and time tor recoil

[@dominicestebanrice7460]

Bizarre! The initial spring PE the system is "primed" with is the same (rubber band stretched equally in both cases) so.....I don't get it.....but then they indicated its not trivial.

[@cucumber_999]

aren’t you potentially losing energy from the floating stand?

[@NatSciDemos]

As is the case with any ballistic pendulum, kinetic energy will be conserved as the platform swings upward.

[@cucumber_999]

@@NatSciDemos thank you for that! 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@colinsutherland4709]

you would be losing final kinetic energy from the ball comparing to a stationary launch, but like Harvard said, that lost energy is in the platforms movement

[@gauravverma4947]

Very helpful

[@vanotank1645]

очевидно же

[@glowfish937]

he seemed very nervous with his talking

[@23ilfred]

Mass inertia A body at rest