Nov-21-2016: Lab Experiment 8 - Conservation of Linear and Angular Momentum

LAB Experiment 8 - Conservation of Linear and Angular Momentum

Tony Wu, Michell Kuang

November 21, 2016

Lab Goal: To understand and investigate the conservation of angular momentum about a point that is external to a rolling ball.  We start with the linear momentum of a ball and end with angular momentum of a rotating frictionless disk.

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