What happens if you shoot them against each other with the same momentum?
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itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
They have the same momentum (the marble will kill you)
udon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
xavier666@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’m not a Physicist but since they have the same momentum, the marble will have a higher velocity. Let us assume the bowling ball weighs 6000 gm and the marble weighs 20 gm (average weight), the velocity ratio of the marble to bowling ball is 300:1 (300 times faster).
If we assume that both of them are made of the same material, and you throw the bowling ball at 1 m/s, then the marble is launched at nearly Mach 1. I’m pretty sure it will create a neat hole in the bowling ball.
I could be very wrong as well.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They shatter. And everyone in the vicinity dies from shrapnel.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 months ago
Or bounce off of each other, or only one shatters
udon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Would you rather get hit by bowling ball shrapnel or marble shrapnel?
And009@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
How far am I from the collision?
I’ll take a Taco
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
This is what I assumed. Assuming its non-injurious, the marble will sting a lot more, on the other hand, I’d be under a bowling ball (or holding it.)
If its at a significantly injurious amount of momentum, there is no right answer.
GreatRam@lemmy.world 2 months ago
(The bowlingball will also kill you)
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
A bowling ball imparted with the momentum from a slingshot won’t even have the energy to stay air-borne.
The marble imparted with the momentum from a slingshot will fracture or even penetrate your skull.
Momentum is m*v. However, kinetic energy is (1/2)m*v^2, where the velocity is providing exponentially more to the equation.