Activity 3
The Pendulum Ballistic

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Professors Gray and Costanzo would like to thank the following people for their assistance in obtaining access to the Penn State shooting range, accurately shooting at the pendulum, and helping in setting up cameras, the pendulum, and all the other little things that needed to be done.

In addition, here are some photos of Professor Costanzo and some of the above cohorts in action (electronically measuring the speed of the bullet). Of course, we did just as well with our ballistic pendulum as they did with the $1.5 million instrument (slight exageration).


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