Ballistic pendulum

Purpose:

    The purpose of this lab is to find the initial velocity of a projectile in a ballistic pendulum using the conservation of momentum and energy theorem.

Set  up:

Conclusion:

      The uncertainty in the initial velocity of the ball was very low (0.06%), proving that the experiment was successful and that the method used (conservation of energy and momentum) was an accurate method. The initial velocity of the block was 6.03 +/- 0.0358 m/s.