Lab 19: Conservation of Angular Moment

In this lab, we try to see if linear and angular momentum is conserved. A meter stick is going to hit a ball of clay and we have to find the amount of degrees that the system goes up.

We used logger pro and a video camera to capture how much it moved. 

We have to subtract .2 m from the graph as the clay was elevated .2 m from the floor.

Above is our calculations.

Our experiment was quite a bit off. As from our calculations it should have been .238 meters and the computer gave us .280 m. This could be due to friction, air resistance, and how well the hole was drilled in the meter stick. There is also a chance of human error as the release point of the meter stick might not have been parallel to the floor.