In Honor of Halloween...

...I'm doing a semi-Halloween-ish blog this week! Remember those toys called Crazy Bones? The plastic things that were in the shape of crazy things that you slid across the floor to hit the other persons'? Well, if you don't, they're pretty much like bowling, but both sides have pins and you use the pins to knock the other's stuff down...Okay, that was a terrible description. Haha. Anyway, I remembered these toys and decided to go find them. I found a vampire one and a Jack-O-Lantern one, so I used those. The vampire is (very badly) colored black, and the Jack-O-Lantern is (equally badly) colored orange.

I had my mom slide them on our wood floor and this is the result.Starting position.


And this is what happened. As we know, because of the law of conservation of momentum, (Mass of the Vampire)(Initial Velocity of the Vampire)+(Mass of the Jack-O-Lantern)(Initial Velocity of the Jack-O-Lantern)=(Mass of the Vampire)(Velocity of the Vampire after impact)+(Mass of the Jack-O-Lantern)(Velocity of Jack-O-Lantern after impact). The vampire toy stopped in the exact same place where the Jack-O-Lantern started, so we know that the initial velocity of the Jack-O-Lantern is zero and the final velocity of the vampire is zero.

Therefore, (Mass of the Vampire)(Initial Velocity of the Vampire)=(Mass of the Jack-O-Lantern)(Velocity of Jack-O-Lantern after impact)

I don't really know, masses or the velocity, so this is as far as I can take this. Happy homecoming week, everyone, and Happy Halloween! Think about my vampire and Jack-O-Lantern crazy bones while you're trick-or-treating next Saturday! By the way, Jack-O-Lantern is a huge pain in the butt to type repeatedly...Just fyi. :D