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Bullet Block Explained!

2013-08-30

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Watch the bullet block experiment first: http://bit.ly/bulletblock

Click for a free audiobook from Audible: http://bit.ly/ZJ5Q6z

An interactive vignette of the bullet block http://ivv.rit.edu/bby/

Can you figure out the spinning disk? http://bit.ly/spinningdisk

Thank you all for the awesome video responses and comments!!

Simulation: http://bit.ly/19SCVnl

Web comic: http://bit.ly/17o8HrR

Wired Blog: http://bit.ly/17o9Dwu

Science Blogs: http://bit.ly/17o9au3

Scientific American: http://bit.ly/19SDoWC

Le's Blog: http://bit.ly/18q1m8a

Video responses from which I borrowed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hup-l4_Qt_U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwZ1Mhy0BS0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgylTbknFdM

Thanks to everyone at RIT and Dickinson College who helped with the making of this video:

Rochester Institute of Technology

Robert Teese, Katelyn Wilkerson, Andrew Gillie, Andrew Stidwill

Dickinson College

This experiment was the brainchild of David Jackson based on a demo at Princeton.

Priscilla Laws, Catrina Hamilton-Drager, Maxine Willis

High-speed camera support:

Charles Zwemer and Bria Antoine

Music: Temper Trap "Love Lost (Instrumental)" and Lights & Motion "Epilogue" licensed from CueSongs.com


Intro
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Results
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Thank you
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The Answer
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Conservation of Momentum
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Kinetic Energy
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