I need some help with a future physics project?

Question

We're gonna do a project on elastic/inelastic collisions and we have to be able to demonstrate each type of collision IN A CREATIVE WAY. Here some things i was thinking:

for inelastic:
shooting an arrow at a target
shooting a dart at a target (if arrows are too expensive or whatever)
Using a toy gun to shoot a foam dart (Nerf gun)

Elastic Collisions:
Take two remote controlled cars and run them into each other with some action figures strapped on top just for fun.

Ok please give me some more ideas and be as creative as you can. thanks in advance

why wouldn't my car idea work for elastic ?

Isn't an elastic collision when something hits something and it goes back with the same kinetic energy? like a tennis ball hitting a tennis racket.

Answer 1

Elastic: a pie in the face!

OK, seriously.

Elastic: pla-dough ball hitting a bowling ball.

Inelastic: a billiard ball hitting a bowling ball.

HTH

Charles

Answer 2

for inelastic collisions you have pretty good ideas, but i was thinking that if you wanted to do a textbook type experiment

you could throw a toy car at a brick wall

for elastic, youre ideas wouldn't work

you could try leaving one car stationary and another traveling at it at full speed.

hope it helped

Answer 3

try a pool table, using billiard (inelastic) and rubber (elastic) balls of the same size.