Collide a cart into a spring bumper attached to a force sensor, while simultaneously measuring the velocity of the cart before, during, and after the collision using a motion sensor. Using the force sensor and motion sensor data, graph impulse versus change in velocity and find that the slope of that graph is equal to the mass of the cart. Also discover the impulse momentum equation, and use the equation to answer a series of questions.
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