Kinetic_model_prelim

course Phy 232

This may be the second submission for the preliminary kinetic model observations. I did not get a confirmation form last time.

The red ball has more collisions per second than the blue ball. I estimated with the timer, about 25 every 20 seconds. The speed of the red ball is faster than that of the blue ball. Its speed is the one on the right. Its usually between 4 and 7. The blue particle has more mass. Collisions with green balls of similar speed affect the red ball more than the blue one.I didn't see the red ball turn yellow, but some of the green ones do intermittently. Usually one to three of them at a time, though once there were five.

I'd guess that the graphs represent energy and speed, since those are the values being reported at the top of the screen, but I can't make sense of them.

The graphs are frequency distributions for kinetic energy and speed. The middle speeds and energies are the most frequent; speeds double and even triple the most frequent speeds do occur. Kinetic energies are proportional to the square of the speed; a speed double the max speed with yield four times the KE, and since some speeds double or triple the most frequent speeds, kinetic energies should be observed that are 4 or 9 times the most frequent.