A ball rolled down the tube of this apparatus is launched upward at various elevation angles as a projectile. Using as data the heights of three points on the tube, the student must consider potential energy, linear and rotational kinetic energy, frictional corrections, and projectile motion to predict the impact point of the ball.
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1962
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