Ballistic pendulum: bullet speed from the swing

Fire a bullet into a hanging block; momentum is conserved, energy is not. Get v from the height reached and see the lost energy.

About this experiment

What you do in the lab

Change the controls and watch the physics behave in real time in 3D. Live readouts and graphs show the numbers behind it, and the Learn tab has the theory, procedure, observations and viva questions. Works on a phone or a laptop, in English and Hindi.

Topics: ballistic pendulum · inelastic collision · momentum · energy loss

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