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Direct linkMacLeod, Katarin – Physics Education, 2007
The law of conservation of momentum is one that students often have difficulties understanding. This experiment allows students to use childhood toys to examine and calculate the muzzle velocity of their favourite water gun by using an air track, a spark timer or data logger and the law of conservation of momentum in a one-dimensional case, a…
Descriptors: Weapons, Laboratory Experiments, Physics, Science Experiments
