Momentum and impulse

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More mass, harder to stop
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More speed, harder to stop
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Momentum is mass times velocity
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Why momentum measures stopping difficulty
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The unit of momentum
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Momentum is a vector
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Calculate the momentum
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Find the velocity from the momentum
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Find the mass from the momentum

Impulse and momentum change

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Signs for momentum along a line
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Greater force, greater momentum gain
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Longer push, greater momentum gain
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Impulse is force times time
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The unit of impulse
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Impulse is a vector
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Calculate the impulse
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Impulse from a force-time graph
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Find the momentum change

Newton's second law in momentum form, and collision safety

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Longer stop, gentler force
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Newton's second law in momentum form
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Why the two forms of the second law agree
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The momentum form is the more general law
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The impulse-momentum theorem
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Why impulse equals the momentum change
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Newton-seconds are kilogram-meters per second
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From force and time to the final velocity
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Find the average force
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Find the time the force must act
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What a collision is
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How airbags and crumple zones protect
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Judge the gentler design
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Safety-feature force comparison

Conservation of momentum and collisions

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What a system is
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Internal or external force
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Total momentum of a system
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What conserved means
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Judge conservation from the data
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The law of conservation of momentum
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Separations obey the same law
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Why momentum is conserved
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Is momentum conserved here?
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Elastic collision
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Inelastic collision
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Perfectly inelastic collision
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Momentum survives both; kinetic energy only one

Collision calculations in one and two dimensions

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Classify the collision
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Set up the conservation equation
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Stick-together final velocity
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Find the other final velocity
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Find the recoil velocity
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Find the unknown mass
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Work back to the initial velocity
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Spot the flaw in the setup
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Full one-dimensional collision analysis
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Conservation works direction by direction
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Which way after a two-dimensional collision
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Right-angle sticking collision