Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Momentum with Examples

MOMENTUM

momentum imageLook at the given pictures. If both the car and the truck have same speed, which one can be stopped first? Of course all you say, it is hard to stop truck relative to car. Well, what is the reason making car stop easier? They have same speed but different masses. Can mass effect the stopping time or distance? The answer is again YES! It is hard to stop heavier
objects. What we are talking about so far is momentum.

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