Go to youtube and watch this video: Momentum, Magnets & Metal Balls - Sixty Symbols

Check out the change in velocity between the incoming ball and the outgoing ball. A little bit more than conservation is at work here.

Well look at the magnet before the ball impacts it. It accelerates towards the ball at a high speed, which in turn fires off the end ball because of the conservation of momentum.

This is true, but the ball at the end leaves with a greater speed than the input ball had, even if you include the magnetic attraction that the ball felt when it accelerated to start the chain, the leaving ball felt the same attraction as it left and still left faster.

The key here is to look at each collision as a separate part of the system. Momentum is conserved between each individual collision. The first ball strikes the magnet and in order to conserve momentum, the end ball is fired off. Then that ball becomes the first ball and strikes the second magnet and so on. However, each ball which gets fired off has a higher initial velocity which means a greater force is enacted on the end ball to conserve momentum. Momentum is conserved in each collision even though the system gains momentum as a whole.

I feel like my physics teacher would be a little irritated with me because I mixed up kinetic energy and momentum, and so I guess the 'magic' of the increasing ball speed comes from the fact that all of the sets of magnets move backwards as it shoots along, deceptively adding up to quite a bit of momentum for the single shot.

I haven't had the pleasure. But Shadow of the Colossus remains my favourite Sony exclusive, if not my favourite game of all time.

Everyone's entitled to their opinion, and it's only human to try and make that opinion sound as officious and believable as possible, even if it's coming out of the mouth of someone with little to no education or real life experience. I'd bet half the people in this thread are under 18, they may be clever but they simply haven't had time to amass a proper wealth of knowledge.

I agree. I cannot BELIEVE xbox fanboys still say PlayStation have no games.

Not only do we have more exclusives, but i enjoy those games better, all i can think for xbox is Halo and Gears (which, don't get me wrong, are still pretty damn good)

another PS3 player here, and I agree that it gets the short end of the stick. Most games I read reviews for get the lowest out of the ratings for other systems (360 and PC). Plus, the exclusives are better for me, like Resistance, Jak and Daxter, Sly Cooper, etc.

Have you played Journey? Shit's amazing.

I haven't had the pleasure. But Shadow of the Colossus remains my favourite Sony exclusive, if not my favourite game of all time.

Oh, sorry I've never played Skyrim. Have a related pic to make up for it.

Rehabilitate, correct, facilitate productive lives, any of those work for you better?

It was just a Skyrim joke. I really don't care what term you use.

Oh, sorry I've never played Skyrim. Have a related pic to make up for it.

why the thumbs down?

i dont know the name of it but it isnt recoil it jerks back besides upwards...

torque. its called torque

Those damn cassowaries are problem enough!

Not really, it was more of a "I don't want him to die," so the negative in the sentence coincides with the implied negative of his thumb being down.

It would appear the History Chanel has lied to me. They will pay dearly.

>Catcholic
>Username: powerfapping

Well nobody is perfect.

Nice to see you're admitting how you poke at us so much. Maybe do the fuck something about it rather than asking an imaginary friend to forgive you?

Christianity gets shit on more commonly though. I still know that feel

*COUGH*racism*CHOUGH*

I'm a LaVey satanist, so people always associate me with Theistic satanists, even though LaVey Satanism is anti-theistic.

Feels bad man.

Is that a hawk or an owl? I can't even tell.

it's a Hawl.

i thin it's owl, hawk would have eaten that bird

I could not tell you.

i have this one