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Re: momentum



Vernon Clarke wrote:

a quiet game of pool
...
should the horizontal components of the final momentum
[of the two balls]
equal the momentum of the intial white ball?

No, because the two balls are by no means an isolated
system. The exchange horizontal momentum with the table.

For a nice discussion of the real physics of pool, see
http://www.playpool.com/anonftp/pub/APAPP/apappTotl.pdf

This posting is the position of the writer, not that of Alfredo DeOro,
Ralph Greenleaf, or Willie Mosconi.

This posting is the position of the writer, not that of SUNY-BSC, NAU or the AAPT.