Momentum Lab Results


The purpose of this lab was to introduce students to momentum involved in collisions.  Students worked through 6 stations and collided objects with one another to observe how changes in mass and velocity of the objects affected the motion after the collision.  The six stations were:

    -Marble against two sizes of rubber stopper
    -Superball against two sizes of rubber stopper
    -Two marbles of the same size
    -Two marbles of different sizes
    -Two toy cars of the same mass
    -Two cars of different masses