Inelastic Collisions Lab Report

Figure 1: The velocity-versus-time graph depicted above demonstrates the velocity of the blue and grey cart, after an inelastic collision. However, a total of 0.5 kilograms (kg) was added to the blue cart, giving it a total mass of 0.8187 kg while the grey cart had a mass of 0.2987 kg. The blue cart, depicted with the red line, started with an initial velocity of 0.4610 m/s, while the gray cart, represented by the blue line, started from rest. After the collision, the final velocity for both the blue and grey cart was 0.3100 m/s to the right.

Figure 2: The figure above depicts the velocity of the blue and grey carts before and after an inelastic collision, with no additional masses added to either cart. The grey cart, identified as the blue