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Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment II



The second version. Here we aim to shoot the diet coke stream at a 45 degree angle as it's easier to measure the horizontal range than the vertical height. Knowing the range, one can easily calculate the velocity at which the coke is shot out.

Turns out the coke has a range of about 4.5 ft. The experiment is not entirely good because there was limited control over number of mentos dropped (not all may have entered) into the coke, and thus, we don't know if the output was at a maximum possible velocity.

Notice also how some of the mentos are shot out with the stream.

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