Skip to main content

Week 6 Microgravity environments on Earth

Completion requirements
View all sections of the document

Figure 6 shows a graph of the coefficient of restitution against the relative velocity before collision. The x-axis is labelled as Relative Velocity before collision (m/s) and the y-axis is labelled as Coefficient of restitution. Below is a copy of Table 3, which shows the data from the graph.

Table 3 Data obtained from a collision experiment
Velocity before collisionCoefficient of restitution
0.394340+/-0.0052490.312340+/-0.007026
0.404975+/-0.0052540.430552+/-0.008426
0.417616+/-0.0052490.472011+/-0.010388
0.418179+/-0.0068280.527789+/-0.013723
0.335328+/-0.0041410.354709+/-0.006535
0.418685+/-0.0044710.870707+/-0.012637