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Launching a Ping Pong Ball with a Dropper Popper

This activity is a guided inquiry or demonstration where students investigate elastic potential energy and gravitational potential energy and interpret their findings as related to Newton's Laws of motion.

Keywords:: Engineering, Work and Energy, Applications of Newton's Laws, Motion, NSDL, Education, Newton's Laws, Demonstrations, Physics

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Science and Technology / Engineering

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Material Type:: Assessment Tool
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 27, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:: July 27, 2016
Author:: Andrea Del Zoppo
Submitter:: Barbra Bied Sperling

Primary Audience:: High School, College General Ed
Technical Format:: Website
Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Language:: English
Cost Involved:: No
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Accessibility Information Available:: Unknown
Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States