Texas A&M University - ENGR 217Lab Report 5_ Collision Characterization (1).

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COLLISION CHARACTERIZATION Lab Report #5 April 4, 2019 ENGR/PHYS 216 - Section 216 Team 2 College of Engineering Texas A&M University Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for EN... GR/PHYS 216 (Experimental Physics and Engineering Lab - Mechanics) Team 2 1Abstract In this experiment, two pucks were collided with one another at different angles on a frictionless air hockey table in order to determine whether momentum and kinetic energy is conserved in collisions at different angles. The two pucks were pushed toward each other by hand from different directions while the tracking camera recorded position the position, velocity, and acceleration data of the pucks. This was repeated from a variety of angles. Following data analysis of conservation of momentum and kinetic energy, it was found that initial momentum and final momentum were similar but not exact. The same was found for kinetic energy. 1. Introduction In this lab, students were required to collide two hockey pucks at different angles on a frictionless table in order to determine whether the collision was elastic or not. Jetson software was used to collect and store data from a camera, which measured vectors of position, velocity, and acceleration. Data was analyzed to determine if momentum and kinetic energy was conserved. 2. Purpose The purpose of this experiment was to determine if the collision of two hockey pucks was elastic or inelastic and to find if momentum and kinetic energy was conserved [Show More]

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