Concept — Product of an object’s mass and velocity.
Present in chapters
05·06
Linked atoms
40 atoms linked.
04 Energy and work
05 Momentum and collisions
- Life-saving shock absorbers
- Bowling ball against a pin
- Falling onto a mattress
- Conservation of momentum
- Crash test with airbag
- Elastic tennis
- Triangular F(t) graph
- p(t) graph of a rocket
- Impulse
- Impulse on a tennis ball
- The ball that comes back
- Mass that halves
- Why airbags save lives
- Momentum
- Momentum of a car
- Ranking kinetic energies
- Ranking momenta
- Ranking momentum (mv)
- Staged rocket
- Rocket in a vacuum
- Sudden swerve (impulse)
- Fermi estimate — kicking a ball
- Fermi estimate — deflecting an asteroid
- Impulse theorem and the fence diagram
- Third law broken
- Three balls against the wall
- Velocity from total momentum
06 Centre of mass
- Kick and impulse
- Summarised and decomposed quantities
- Impulse and velocity of a small ball
- The velocity of the centre of mass
- Reading a force-time graph
- Angular momentum
- Finding the masses from the centre of mass
- Velocity and momentum of the centre of mass