Baby you're a FIREWORK! (Unit 7)
Law of conservation of momentum states that in a controlled situation, momentum will be conserved, which means that momentum cannot be created nor destroyed. Fireworks are a good example of this law! In a "perfect physics world", fireworks follow a parabola shaped route. And when reaching the top of their route, they explode into a million pieces!! According to the law, if you take the initial momentum of the firework and the total momentum of each piece of the explosion, their momenta will equal each other!
I took this picture while watching the fireworks from last year's Fourth of July event.
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