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Tracker analysis of a ball launched horizontally into a cart. Documents

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Ball Colliding with a Cart TRZ 

This Tracker experiment shows a ball that is launched horizontally from a height h and lands in a stationary cart.  The cart moves after the collision and the analysis shows how Tracker is used to analyze the motion and the momentum of the ball-cart system.

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