Linear Air Trough
| Autor: | H. V. Neher, R. B. Leighton |
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| Rok vydání: | 1963 |
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| Zdroj: | American Journal of Physics. 31:255-262 |
| ISSN: | 1943-2909 0002-9505 |
| DOI: | 10.1119/1.1969427 |
| Popis: | The construction and operation of a linear air trough, a device for floating small rectangular blocks (called gliders) on an air film, is described. The apparatus is useful for demonstrations and laboratory study of one-dimensional particle mechanics. The very small friction that is present is due to the viscosity of the air film, and causes the speed of a glider to decay with a time constant of the order of a few hundred seconds. A type of bumper has been designed which yields a coefficient of restitution greater than 0.99. Ten of these air troughs have been used in a student laboratory for a year, and have proved quite successful in experiments involving Newton's laws, collisions, damped harmonic motion, and motion on an incline. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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