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Collisions and rockets

Repulsion with compressed air
Water rocket
Recoil with rocket vehicle
Recoil independent of medium
Collision on air cushion with carrom disks
Revised since 08/26
Ballistic pendulum
Impulse
Elastic collision with air track
Plastic and elastic collision
Various elastic bodies on steel plate
Momentum transfer with 7 steel balls
Ball channel
Repulsion with ball cannon
Repulsion with cart and compressed air cylinder
Galilean cannon (elastic collision)
Vacuum cannon

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