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For the forms of Energy project I decided to do mechanical energy. Mechanical energy is used for a lot of things and one of the most common ones are cars. Cars are basically mechanical energy. I could l ist a whole bunch of things or objects that use mechanical energy such as computers or #|Ipads, #|Iphones anything like that. Most mechanical energy is usually man made



Abstract

Newton’s cradle is made up of five balls attached to strings. When you pull a ball back and let you it will knock the other ball at the end up and doing it over and over again. The string feels like plastic and the strings are attached to metals on each side impaled inside the wood at the bottom. That is what the Newton’s cradle looks like. There are five balls and when you release the first ball it hits the second ball slightly and then the third ball hits the third ball and then the fourth ball finally hits the fifth ball and the last ball goes flying up. The fifth ball goes up into the air but later in a second it goes back and the process goes back again. The process happens over and over until it finally stops. You can do it with two balls or three balls or four balls. It doesn’t work with five balls because there is nothing to hit. This is what I discovered about Newton’s cradle.

This is a model car made out of play-doh