Moment, Impulse and Momentum

1. Who has the more linear momentum, a 70-kilogram man running at 8.5 m/s or a 120kilogram lineman moving at 5.0 m/s?

2. A 0.150-kilogram baseball traveling with a horizontal speed of 4.50 m/s is hit by a bat and then moves with a speed of 34.7 m/s in the opposite direction. What is the change in the balls momentum?

3. If two protons approach each other with speeds of 340 m/s and 450 m/s respectively, what is the total momentum of the two-particle system?

4. Taking the density of air to be 1.29 kg/m3, what is the magnitude of the linear momentum of a cubic meter of air moving with a wind speed of a) 36 km/h and b) 74 km/h (the wind speed at which a tropical storm becomes a hurricane).

5. A 0.20-kilogram billiard ball traveling at a speed of 15 m/s strikes the side rail of the table at an angle of 60o. If the ball rebounds at the same time speed and angle, what is the change in its momentum?

6. A 0.30-kilogram object with a speed of 2.0 m/s is in the positive direction has a head-on elastic collision with a stationary 0.70-kilogram object located at x=0. What is the distance separating the objects after the collision?

7. The spout of a water tower used to fill fire-fighting tank trucks is 7.0 m above the ground. If the spout is inadvertently left open and water turns out vertically at a rate of 3.0 kg/s, what is the average force exerted by the water on the ground?

8. A mother holds her infant son on her lap rather than putting him in a child seat. In a car crash of only 25 mph (40km/h), the baby, weighing 12 lb (of mass 5.5 kg) will require his mothers arms to exert of force 240 lb. to avoid injury. How long does the crash last?

9. Two balls approach each other as shown below, where m=2.0 kg, v=3.0 m/s, M=4.0 kg, V=5.0 m/s. If the balls collide and stick together at the origin, a) what are the components of the velocity v of the balls after collision? b) What is the angle?

10. A moving billiard ball collides with an identical stationary one, and the incoming ball is deflected at an angle of 45o from its original direction. Show that if the collision is elastic, both balls will have the same speed afterward and will move at 90 o relative to each other.