Two Dimensional Collisions

Purpose:
The purpose if this lab is to look at the collisions between two steel balls and between a marble and steel ball to see if momentum is conserved in both cases

Experiment:
We will be using a level table with a camera set up above to capture the motion of the two collisions mentioned above. Here is our setup.

 Here are the videos of the two collisions
The first shows the two marbles
The second shows the marble and the steel ball

After we performed these collisions, we used logger pro to plot the paths of each collision to find our momentum before and after the collisions. Using those graphs, we could then plot the momentum of each and show whether it was conserved or not as well as the kinetic energy of each

Unfortunately after all that work, i was unable to find the graphs of the positions of the collisions so i will skip ahead to the momentum's of each collision

Marble vs Marble Collision:

The green tick marks represent Total Kinetic Energy

The light blue triangles represent momentum in the Y directions

The blue squares represent momentum in the X direction

Although the graph doesn't show a straight lie for kinetic energy, 

it was conserved and it relatively straight

Marble vs Steel Ball:

The green diamonds marks represent Total Kinetic Energy

The light blue triangles represent momentum in the Y directions

The green crosses represent momentum in the X direction

Same as above, Kinetic energy is conserved even the the graph shows otherwise

Although our videos and our analyzation of the video wasn't very accurate, our team was satisfied with the results. we could have gotten better data if the marbles were bigger and we had better video capture