Discover Science: Episode 12 - Let's Play Long Billiards

To study the effects of colliding forces, the challenge in this episode is a billiards game with more than 650 balls lined up over a length of 30 metres. Professional billiard players hit the ball on one end to see if the ball on the other end will move.

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  • elenaToronto

    “I was in the UK recently and they play with smaller billiard balls over there - http://www.libertygames.co.uk/store/pool-and-snooker-accessories/english-pool-balls/spots-and-stripes-pool-balls/ - I wonder what would happen if this experiment was tried with those?” — elenaToronto, 19 Dec 2012

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Film Credit

director
Daiki Kuroki
producer
Miki Mori
So Ichitani
Rania Jammal

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