Republic of the Philippines

BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY

BatStateU Alangilan
Alangilan, Batangas City
College of Engineering, Architecture and Fine Arts
https://batstate-u.edu.ph/, Tel. No. (043) 425-0139 loc. 118/2121

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

SCI 403 – PHYSICS I

EXPERIMENT 2 – CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM IN COLLISIONS
SECOND SEMESTER SY 2021 - 2022

NAME : _____________________________________SCORE: ____________________

SECTION: ___________________________________ DATE: ______________________

I. OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate both elastic and inelastic collisions of carts by using

different methods of conservation of linear momentum, which can show the loss or
gain of energy in the system.

II. PROCEDURES:
1. Open the link for the online simulation of collision carts:
https://www.physicsclassroom.com/Physics-Interactives/Momentum-and-
Collisions/Collision-Carts/Collision-Carts-Interactive.
2. Perform the online simulation of collision carts before collision for elastic and
inelastic collision then observe the motion of two carts after each collision.
3. Draw the diagram for the after collision.

“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same amount of hours per day that were given
to… Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Di Vinci… and Albert Einstein.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.”
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 III. DATA AND RESULTS:
A. ELASTIC COLLISIONS

“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same amount of hours per day that were given
to… Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Di Vinci… and Albert Einstein.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.”
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 B. INELASTIC COLLISIONS

IV. QUESTIONS:
1. When the two carts having the same mass and the same speed collide and stick
together, they stop. What happened to each cart’s momentum? Is momentum
conserved?
2. When the two carts having the same mass and the same speed collide and bonce off
elastically, what is the final momentum of the carts?

V. CONCLUSION:

“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same amount of hours per day that were given
to… Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Di Vinci… and Albert Einstein.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.”
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