Purpose: To show that momentum and kinetic energy will be conserved in a completely elastic collision between 2 objects, where the objects can move in 2 dimensions.
Procedure: An old spark table was used due to the known flatness of the glass used as the top and the fact that the table could be leveled, so that kinetic energy would be constant. A camera was placed above the table. A ball was placed at the center of the table. Another ball was rolled toward the first ball. The camera recorded this motion. The data was then imported into Logger Pro and the and the momentum for each ball in each run was calculated.



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