Purpose:
The purpose of this lab is to determine the firing speed of a ball from a spring-loaded gun.
Apparatus:
Theory:
When the gun shoots the ball into the block, it should be an inelastic collision. We can write a conservation of momentum equation for the speed of the system immediately after the collision. After the collision, the system rises a certain height, going from KE to GPE. At the max height, KE will be zero. A conservation of energy equation can be written to relate the max height of the system to the initial speed of the block.
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