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  Colliding Steel Spheres
Description:

Suspend a piece of paper, and crash these two spheres together with the paper sandwiched between. A hole will be burned in the paper (confirm that it was burned by smell). Demonstrates that mechanical energy is converted to thermal energy.
Notes: Instructions are in the box with these spheres.
Location:

LDR-G3.

Image:

Spheres

 

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