Our group consisted of me, Anestis, Nurta, Cris, and Ramon
After debating for a bit about what we should do for the experiment we decided we wanted to do an experiment including collisions and explosions. After the professor told us that we couldn’t make a hydrogen bomb because it was too dangerous we decided to make two objects collide and explain the interactions within the two objects. We thought about what actually happens when things collide other than destruction and explosions and realized that the conservation of momentum pretty much summed up everything we were trying to show. The conservation of momentum states that For a collision occurring between 2 objects, the total momentum of the two objects before the collision is equal to the total momentum of the two objects after the collision. Therefore the momentum lost from object 1 is equal to the momentum gained by object 2.
So we decided to collide two objects and record the momentum’s of both objects and prove that the conservation of momentum is valid. We still haven’t worked out all of the details yet but I will post our plan in the next blog!
Momentum = mass x velocity
p = mv