What would happen if two cannons fire a cannonball at each other at the exact same angle and the canonballs hit each other perfectly head-on, do they cancel out? (lemmy.world)

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Cannonball on cannonball, this is all cannon

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[-] Duchess@piefed.linenoise.vip 2 points 1 week ago

I don’t think so. This mythbusters clip is a good example of two sets of energy inputs canceling each other out. In the double cannon experiment OP posits the energy becomes additive.

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