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Newton's Cradle

The Newton's cradle, is a device that demonstrates the conservation of momentum and energy through a series of swinging spheres. When one ball at an end is lifted and released, it strikes the stationary balls, transmitting force through the central balls and causing the ball at the opposite end to swing upward.

Instructions:

Move the gray spheres by dragging the blue indicators, press the play button to start the animation, the pause button will pause the animation and the cross button restart to the initial positions. Move the slider to change the animation speed.