After a rather painful two hours of meeting, our team decided how the experiment will be carried out.

Materials:

1 track, 2 carts, 2 motion sensors, some masses, computer and interface software.

Procedure:

We are going to place the two carts on the track. On each cart we will place some masses to avoid having them go too fast. We will measure the mass of each cart(with the added masses). Then, we will place two motions sensors,each on the end of our track. Finally, we will push one cart towards the other cart(which is stationary) to make them collide. Our motion sensors will determine the velocities of the two carts. Then, using the formula p=m*v, we will determine the momentum of each cart during the whole process. We hope they will will be the same in value. Finally, we will repeat this process 5 different times, each time changing the mass on the carts.

Wish us luck!