Experiment202:ConservationofMomentum:The

BallisticPendelum

MiguelT.Zacarias
DepartmentofCivil,EnvironmentalandGeologicalEngineering
MapuaInstituteofTechnology
1.Conclusion
The total momentum of the system is conserved, Using the ballistic method, it is a design of
inelastic collision. An elastic collision, were commonly energy and momentum is preserved.
In a rigid collision, the total momentum is preserved but entire kinetic energy is not
preserved the kinetic energy is changed into other kinds of energy. The total momentum is
well-preserved during inelastic collision.
The total energy of the structure is well-preserved throughout the collision. The total
momentum before and after impact are then equal and the total energy will be preserved.
The outcome is the energy will have changed into one more type of energy.
A preserved quantity that the total momentum in a remote scheme is continuous. Since it is
a preserved quantity, outer forces, alike air resistance are one of the reason of the changes
in total momentum.
As far as the precision of the results from the experiment, the percent difference between
ballistic and trajectory method is 3.91%. This is a rightfully important difference, which
proposes that their sources of error during the experiment. the ballistic format could have
had better groves to get more precise measurements. The major contributor of error, were
from the change in displacement from the projectile part of the experiment. Another positive
response from the results was the slight impairment in kinetic energy and it was equal to the
mass ratios from the ballistic pendulum setup, which is theoretically expected.

2. Application
The bullet can chuck a person through a window, what would the recoil of the gun have done
to the shooter? If the gun doesn't toss the shooter off his feet, the bullet can't toss the target
off his feet. This shows that ballistic pendulum and kinematics have applications in todays
world.