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Pendulum Air Cart
M-d4c



This air track glider has a heavy pendulum; when the pendulum is set swinging the glider moves in the opposite sense. Collisions with the track bumper show interesting behavior


Fishbane Chapter:   8.6
Reese Chapter:   9.910
RHK 5th:   7.02
PIRA DCS classification:   1D40.50

Physics Lecture Demonstrations at the Department of Physics and Astronomy
The Johns Hopkins University