Impulse Momentum

Terrance Gibson had some notes on the impulse momentum lab to share. He's going to work on revising it for a bit better & more reproducible results.

On the Impulse Momentum lab you should analyze the change in momentum during a collision. However this lab is very hard to follow. It is not a one class period lab because the setup takes a long time - especially trying to decide how the accessory bracket and the motion sensor go together. The directions are very misleading, they don’t give a clear picture of how the setup of the lab is supposed to go. By the time you have set it up the, class period or block would be nearly over. There are also too many directions for a student to follow, which probably makes them bored with the lab, leading to bad results. So I feel the lab needs a lot of improvement and need to be shorten especially, so it can be accomplished successfully in a block or period.