Explanations Using Energy Ideas – Movie of colliding carts

In a previous activity you pushed a low-friction cart so that it collided with a stationary cart. As a reminder, here is demonstration video of the same experiments. You may wish to refer back to this video. Click "Home" for the table of contents and then select “Movie of colliding carts.” to return to this page.

This video shows two carts on a track. A cart on the left is given a push and begins moving. This is the launched cart. It collides with a stationary cart on the right which is the target cart. The target cart moves due to the collision interaction.