steel ball mystery. - Olivia and Kaleb

The ball on the right has greater velocity because as the ball on the left transfers its velocity to a magnet transfers the velocity to the next ball.  it to another pair of steel balls, in which the second steel ball of the pair shoots off with a greater velocity than the first steel ball, this continues until the very last ball gets velocity transferred to it, causing it to shoot off the greatest velocity out of all the steel balls. The magnet not only help transfer velocity of the steel ball to the next, it actually increases the velocity of the steel ball because one side of the magnet has a magnetic pull on one of the steel balls causing the other side of the magnet to repeal the other ball with more force because is absorbed the velocity of the first ball and expels it on the other side with more velocity causing it to speed towards the next magnet that pulls the steel ball towards it...etc. Until it reaches the last steel ball.

Steel Ball Mystery Project - Jacob Avorio, Christian Bobrowski

The right ball had a greater velocity than the left ball that was initially sent because the bounces made by every collision increased the following impacts. The last marble to be hit took the most damage and had the most momentum. It would happen on a Newton’s cradle because one ball whacks another and stops because they have equal mass (just like a billiard ball).

Jacob Avorio, Extension #2, Inertia Demo

Mamma said, "Well, objects that are still don't move spontaneously, so they tend to stay at rest. When you flick the coin fast enough, the only coin that is effected is the one hit on the bottom. The slower you flick the coin, the more you disturb the other coins."

Whatever Mamma says goes, bub.