Learn about MIT TechTV and check out our resource page for media makers at MIT.

MIT TechTV is an initiative of MIT Engineering

Two Dimensional Collisions

You need Adobe Flash Player to watch videos on this site.

Two pucks of the same mass are slid at each other on an air table, and their resulting collisions demonstrate conservation of momentum. Notice on the first collision, for example, that when a moving puck hits a stationary puck dead-on, that the second puck leaves with the same velocity as the first, and the first puck stops moving completely.

Comments (0)

It looks like no one has posted a comment yet. You can be the first!

You need to log in, in order to post comments. If you don’t have an account yet, sign up now!

Created
June 10, 2009 14:04
Category
Tags
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (What is this?)
Formats
Flash Video (flv), mov
Additional Files


Viewed
2309 times

More from MIT Department of Physics Technical Services Group

MIT Physics Demo -- Microwave Polarization

MIT Physics Demo -- Microwave Polar...

Added 1 year ago | 00:01:15 | 1878 views

Operating Five Coupled Carts Driven on an Air Track

Operating Five Coupled Carts Driven...

Added 5 months ago | 00:03:16 | 184 views | private

Soap Film Oscillation

Soap Film Oscillation

Added 4 months ago | 00:04:28 | 2111 views

MIT Physics Demo -- No-Win Tug of War

MIT Physics Demo -- No-Win Tug of War

Added 1 year ago | 00:00:35 | 2627 views

MIT Physics Demo -- Galvanometer Principle

MIT Physics Demo -- Galvanometer Pr...

Added 1 year ago | 00:00:47 | 1822 views

Balloons in Liquid Nitrogen

Balloons in Liquid Nitrogen

Added 10 months ago | 00:01:19 | 4340 views