Name: _____________________

Name:____________________________________________________
Period: _____________________
Date:_________________________ Block:_____ Momentumand Conservation of Momentum
A fast baseball:
a lot of
momentum;
light, but fast.

Momentum

Momentum
(in kgm/sec)

Mass
(in kg)

p =mv

A house that is not moving has no momentum.

Velocity
(in m/sec)

Something has to
bemoving to have
momentum.

Momentumequals mass times velocity.

Something wit
momentumwou
worseif it hi

1) Find the momentum of a 25 kg object going 4 m/s.

Ex. How much momentumdoes a 30 kg
Ex. An object going 3 m/s has 36 kgm/s
2 momentum. Find mass.
object
going
4
m
/s
have?
2) Find the weight of a 25 kg table. (Use g = 9.8 m/s of
)
Variables:
3) A 25 kg cart has Variables:
125 kgm/sSolve:
of momentum. How
fast is theSolve:
cart going?
30 kg = m
p = mv
3 m/s = v
If p = mv
4 m/s = v

= (30kg)(4m/s)

36 kgm/s = p

4) An object is going
is 3kgm/s
kg.Find momentum.
p =22
? m/s and
= 120
m=?

Then m = p/v
= (36kgm/s)/(3m/s)
J ust put together the
Equation:
= 12iskggoing 4
5) A 10 kg object isEquation:
5 m/s moving
to
the
left
while
a
3
kg
object
units for mand v.
p
=
mv
p
=
mv
m/s to the right. (Remember that left is negative.)

Ex. How f
going i
Variables:
45 kgm/s = p
15 kg = m
v=?
Equation:
p = mv

a. Find the momentum of the 10 kg object (well call this momentum

1 or p1)
Newtons Third Law says that

Law of Conservation of Momentum

b. Find the momentum

thethe
3 ball
kg object (p2)
when you throwofa ball,
pushes on you, too. Using

Law
o

entum
momentum,
you can describe
c. Find the net
momentum
of both objectsMom
(p=
p 1 is
+cons
p2)erved in a closed

system OR Thetotal amount of

what happens between pairs of
momentum does not change.
forces.
6) A 35 kg object has 450 kgm/s of momentum. Calculate
its velocity.

m
Solution:
7) An object has 5000 kgm/s
ofkg
momentum
when it is moving 25
m/s.
Ex. A 40
boy on a skateboard
throws
a
2
kg,
20
m
/s
to
the
left.
Calculate its mass.
Pchange = 0 = PR - PL
Find how fast the boy is going
PL = PR
afterward.
P
Pboy
8) * A 25 kg dog moving 3 m/s to the right while a 30 kg dog ball
is =
moving
4
m/s to the right (yes,
pnet. mLvL = mRvR
ball =same
2 kg direction).
boyCalculate
= 40 kg
mLvL
vR =?
= vR
mR
vL = 20 m/s
9) A 2 kg ball initially going 4 m/s to the right is later going
8 m/s to the
(2kg)(20m/s)
=
right. Find v. (Remember
initial.)
Pball = that = final Pboy
=
40kg

mLvL

mRvR

40 m/s

= 1 m/s
40
10) * A 3 kg toy car going 6 m/sUs
to
theLaw
right
eThe
of ends up going 3 m/s to the left.
Conservation of Momentum

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Theboy ends up going

1 m/s to theright.

Conserv
how ro
gases a
rocket g

Momentum
is conserved

Fuel

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Name:____________________________________________________
Date:_________________________ Block:_____
Being careful of negatives and positives, find the change of momentum
of the car.