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A ballistic pendulum is a device for measuring an object’s momentum. It’s used for calculating kinetic energy and velocity, and measures any type of transfer of momentum. The measurements that are required are mass of object, mass of pendulum, maximum height reached by the pendulum, velocity of the object, and velocity of the pendulum. The physics principles involved are kinetic energy, momentum, inelastic collisions, potential energy, and the law of conservation of momentum. A ballistic pendulum a sketch of a ballistic pendulum with the equation involved explaining how it works a ballistic pendulum with the parts and what they are called