James

this may be a spectacular coincidence>>>but do you hava daughter with a name that starts with c?

Here"s the deal: i"m a high school student interested in momentum and energy conservation> my science projects has enough backround information and what not<Thats not the problem>my actual experiment is proving perpetual motion impossible using a line of marbles>i am going to line up the marbles and drop one into the mess< one pops out the other side< not two with half the speed< thats because kinetic energy must also be conserved and since the number of balls remains consistent, That shows that kinetic energy after the collision cant be more than before the collision> hence no perpetual motion> but how can i use the same principle in a more impressive project? please please please tell me!

How doooo? I'm new here. Simply a fan of physics. I don't have time to write a question in the question place so here it is right now: I'm doing a science projects on the conservation of Momentum and energy, but i lack the tools to do anything advanced. I settled on proving perpetual motion impossible using the novelty toy-"The Swinging wonder" you know the thing with the balls and transfer of momentum and what-not. But i need some actual experiment thats more impressive than just something everybody's seen before. Please Enlighten me Mr. Genius or Somebody.