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Ballistic Pendulum with Gun
M-m4d



A ball is shot out of a fixed, spring-powered gun into a pendulum which traps the ball.


Fishbane Chapter:   8.4
PIRA DCS classification:   1M40.40

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