Franke Horstmann Lab Report—Momentum Lab
Survey Physical Science 09/09/2014
Abstract
This experiment helped validate the law of conserva‘on of momentum. The test was done by
conduc’ng two experiments with car A and car B, car A’s mass being known and car B’s mass
unknown. Experiment A was done by s‘cking the cars in the center of the track and se/ng o0
the puncher then recording the car velocity. Experiment B was done by placing car B in front of
the second photogate and car A at the start of the track, again the trigger of car A was set o0
and it collided with car B and the car velocity was recorded. Our results show momentum and
kinema’cs methods show highly accurate results.
Introducon
Newton’s 3rd Law states that for every ac’on there is an equal and opposite reac’on. There
