Wooden swinging balls
Newton's cradle is a device that demonstrates conservation of momentum and energy using a . But in a real Newton's cradle the fourth ball swings out as far as the fifth ball.
However, in early , an English actor, Simon Prebble, coined the name "Newton's cradle" (now used generically) for the wooden version.
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Buy Newton's Cradle Art in Motion, 7 1/4-Inch Balance Balls - Black Wooden Base: Home Décor Lift one of the 5 steel balls at either end and let it swing back.
Description:When the fifth ball begins accelerating, it is receiving momentum and energy from the third and fourth balls through the spring action of their compressed surfaces. For identical elastic balls of any type with initially touching balls the action is the same for the first strike, except the time to complete a collision increases in softer materials. This separates the balls, but they come back together just before as the fifth ball returns. This is due to the pendulum phenomenon of different small angle disturbances having approximately the same time to return to the center. When balls are "touching" in subsequent collisions is complex, but still determinable by this method, especially if friction losses is included and the pendulum timing is calculated exactly instead of relying on the small angle approximation. The Hertzian differential equations predict that if two balls strike three, the fifth and fourth balls will leave with velocities of 1.
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