COLLISION IN 2-D APPARATUS [PSSC]

COLLISION IN 2-D APPARATUS [PSSC]

•  This Collision In 2-D Apparatus device is an old P.S.S.C design and is clamped to the edge of a workbench providing a ramp for launching balls of various sizes and masses supplied.
•  Parts required for measuring the distance travelled by the balls while falling is included.
•  An adjustable ball support is provided at the base of the ramp, for arrangement of launched ball and the stationary ball to collide as the ball flies from the ramp.
•  A ‘G’ clamp, some sheets of carbon paper and a measuring tape are the only extra items required for performing experiments.
•  Size dimensions: 310 x 76 x 26mm.

(Wikipedia excerpt: .."...In physics, an elastic collision occurs between two physical objects in which the total kinetic energy of the two bodies remains the same. In an ideal, perfectly elastic collision, there is no net conversion of kinetic energy into other forms such as heat, sound, or potential energy.

During the collision of small objects, kinetic energy is first converted to potential energy associated with a repulsive or attractive force between the particles (when the particles move against this force, i.e. the angle between the force and the relative velocity is obtuse), then this potential energy is converted back to kinetic energy (when the particles move with this force, i.e. the angle between the force and the relative velocity is acute)....")

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