What did we find out?

We found that just because a ball is good for knocking things over doesn't mean it always will. When we studied our notes carefully, we realized the carnival game operators set the blocks diagonally. This meant the energy of the ball doesn't go to all the blocks, and one block always seems to stay on the table. When we tried our own break-the-plates game, we found that if plates were leaning forward in the rack, they were harder to break, because they could absorb the ball's energy. If the plates were leaning back in the rack, we could break them almost every time! more...