Name: ______________________ Date: _______

Period: _________

Impulse:
Exercise 1: Use impulse = F x t to solve the following problems.

a) A football player kicks a ball with a force of 50N. Find the

impulse on the ball if his foot stays in contact with the football for
0.01s.

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b) A hockey player applies an average force of 80N to a 0.25kg hockey puck for a
time of 0.2s. Determine the impulse experienced by the hockey puck.

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c) Aunt Mary needs to hang a picture in her bedroom. She uses a hammer to drive
the nail into the wall. Find the force exerted by the hammer on the nail if the
hammer stays in contact with the nail for 0.5s and has an impulse of 25Ns.

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Exercise 2: Use impulse = change in momentum to solve the following:

a) A 0.5kg baseball experiences a 10N force for a duration of 0.1s. What is the
change in velocity of the baseball?

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b) A space shuttle burns fuel at the rate of 13,000kg in each second. Find the force
exerted by the fuel on the shuttle if in 2s the shuttle experiences a change in
momentum of 325,000kgm/s.

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Name: ______________________ Date: _______

Period: _________
Exercise 3: A van of mass 1200kg was moving at a velocity of 8m/s when it was
involved in a head on collision with a lorry moving in the opposite
direction. Assuming that the van came to stop after the
collision,

i. calculate the momentum of the van before the collision _______________________

ii. work out the momentum of the van after the collision _______________________
iii. find the change in momentum of the van _______________________
iv. if the van took 0.3s to stop, calculate the force that acted on each driver.
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Momentum Inelastic Collision

P = mv m1v1I + m2 v2 I = (m1 + m2 )v F

1. A Passenger car (m = 10.0 kg) and a flat car (m = 7.5 kg) collide and move off as
shown. The left car was initially traveling at 3.5 m/s right and the right car was
initially traveling at a velocity of 2.2 m/s left. V V

a. What type of a collision is depicted here?

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b. What was the initial momentum of the right car? V

c. What was the initial momentum of the left car?

d. What was the final velocity of the coupled cars? Remember, velocity has both a
magnitude and a direction.
Name: ______________________ Date: _______

Period: _________

2. Suppose that you have a mass of 45.7 kg and are standing on frictionless roller skates.
Someone then throws you a 2.50 kg mass with a velocity of 14.5 m/s and you catch it.
What will be your resultant velocity?

3. A 1250 kg car is moving down the highway with a velocity of 32.0 m/s when it
bumps into the car ahead of it which has a mass of 875 kg and a velocity of 25.0 m/s.
After the collision, the two cars stick together. What will be the resulting velocity of
the two cars together?

4. A 9.00 kg mass is moving to the right with a velocity of 14.0 m/s. A 12.0 kg mass is
moving to the left with a velocity of 5.00 m/s. Assuming that these two balls have a
head on collision and stick together, what will be the final velocity of the
combination?