Impuls+Lab

Impulse Lab Carson, TJ, Paul
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The goal of the lab was to find the relationship between Impulse, which is defined as the product of force and time, and the change in momentum of an object (Δp). Momentum is abbreviated by the letter "p", and delta(Δ) means change. In class it was learned that momentum is the product of mass and velocity and that Impulse is the product of force and time. This lab was fundamentally an exploratory lab, which gave the possibility of experimentally discovering the correlation between two seeming different things. The theory was being tested is that the two values, Δp and Impulse, would be equal. __Data__ Data was collected by using a motion detector, a force probe, and a scale for mass. The program Logger Pro was also used to collect the data and for analysis of it. The cart was rolled away from the motion detector, measuring its velocity. The constant force was given by a hang mass looped around a pulley and allowed to fall. The cart was stopped when it reached the end of the track and stopped data collection from Logger Pro.
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 * Trial Number || Mass (kg) || Velocity (m/s) || p Initial (N*s) || p Final (N*s) || Force (N) || Time (S) || Impulse (N*s) ||
 * One || 0.673 || 1.193 || 0 || 0.802889 || 0.87 || 1.58 || 1.3746 ||
 * Two || 0.673 || 1.238 || 0 || 0.833174 || 0.87 || 1.18 || 1.0266 ||
 * Three || 0.673 || 1.256 || 0 || 0.845288 || 0.87 || 1.46 || 1.2701 ||

We know that the Impulse and the change in change in momentum should be equal. However, our numbers ended up having different answers. Our best trial was trial three. The two values came very close to being equal.
 * Results:**

Since we found out that the numbers of impulse and change in momentum should be the same, we concluded that the relationship between the two is that they are equal. The Change in momentum must have an equal number to the Impulse. We had a small margin of error in trial three, our best trial, and the most likely reason for the differences in numbers was probably human error and possibly a bad reading on LoggerPro.
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