

This past weekend my friends and I went to Dave and Buster's to play some pool and video games. While we were there, I realized that there was a lot of physics going on. In pool, momentum is transferred from the white cue ball to either a solid color ball or striped ball depending on which team you are on. Because the mass of all the balls are the same, the velocity determines the momentum that each ball has. Although not all of the momentum is conserved due to the friction created between the surface of the table and ball, a large majority is. An even better example of the conservation of momentum is when we played shuffleboard. As the pucks are thrown across the board, there is barely any friction between the puck and the table. Therefore, almost all of the momentum is transferred to a fast moving puck, to one that is resting still. This reminded me of the air puck lab because that lab was also created to eliminate almost all of friction.
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