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HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL DROPPED BALLS

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EQUIPMENT
    redball.gif (326 bytes) Horizontal and Vertical Dropped Balls Device
    redball.gif (326 bytes) 2 Steel Balls
    redball.gif (326 bytes) Metal lined catching bins
   


NARRATIVE
            This is an apparatus which is clamped to a tall stand and has two steel balls which are placed at either end of the apparatus. When the switch is thrown, both balls will be released. The one ball  will fall straight down, and the other one will be shot out horizontally. Both will hit the catching bins simultaneously because they accelerate at the same rate. The catching bins are used so that the students can hear them as they hit. Their single bang indicates that they hit at the same time.