Collision Balls
Collision Balls
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- Description
- This type of apparatus, with an odd number of balls suspended from strings, has been used to demonstrate the conservation of momentum since the early seventeenth century. This unsigned five-ball example was shown to students at the Case Institute of Technology.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- collision balls
- Measurements
- overall: 25 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in; 64.77 cm x 24.13 cm x 19.05 cm
- ID Number
- PH.323670
- catalog number
- 323670
- accession number
- 251332
- Credit Line
- Case Institute of Technology
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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