Impulse Lab

BIG QUESTION:
What is the relationship between impulse, force, and time in a collision?

 Newton once claimed that  " For every force there is an equal opposite of force."

Lab:

In this lab we made a collision between a sonic probe and a cart, both with an aluminum ring attached to help us see how time manipulates force.

After we collected our data we found out that the change in both force and momentum( Impulse)  were relatively close. We got this by finding the change in momentum and also by finding the area of a force x time graph. As you can see in the picture below J ( impulse) =-.319 is pretty close the area of the graph T(F)= -.3768.

Because these two are really close ato being the same data this means that a force x times graph  represents the impulse .

The next part of our lab we observed a collision between two carts, one weighing more than the other ( blue cart weighing more) . We later found out that these two carts both bent the same amount even though one cart( the blue cart) weighed more. Now you can conclude that  NO MATTER WHAT THE MASS THERE IS AN EQUAL  AND OPPOSITE FORCE.  

Recently Asked Questions:

Why does the red cart fly back farther than the blue cart?

• The red cart flies back due fact that the blue cart has a bigger mass which means there will be a bigger difference in momentum between the red and blue cart.
• The aluminum rings doesn't affect why the red cart flies back because it doesn't change and it will have the same amount of force as the blue cart

Why do both the aluminum rings bend the same amount?

• They bend the same amount because the only thing that changed was the mass which doesn't affect the force or time in this situation

Real Life Connection

Rock climbing is the best way to think about an impulse lab for me. In rock climbing when a climber comes down a cliff, they use a rope to help INCREASE the amount of stopping time  and DECREASE the amount of force. This is a really big deal to climbers because if they couldn't increase the amount of stopping time then the force could be great enough to kill them. I think climbers really appreciate physics every time the choose to go climb.