Multi-stage vertical collision balls.



 
A20-2 Multi-stage vertical collision balls.
Purpose: To demonstrate the laws of momentum and energy in action.
Description: The multi-stage vertical collision balls consists of a plastic stick with four superballs of decreasing diameter impaled on it. Place a fifth ball over the top, hold the assembly by the stick and drop it. The top ball will take off skyward as high as 10 m.
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Equipment: Multi-stage vertical collision balls.

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