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When have you heard this term? Some examples: The Maple Leafs have won 5 straight games and they are building momentum towards the playoffs The momentum to use technology has been huge in the past few years Keeping your momentum is the key to reaching yearly resolutions
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What makes an object hard to stop? Is it harder to stop a bullet, or a truck travelling along the highway? What makes each object hard to stop?
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The bullet is hard to stop because it is travelling very fast, whereas the truck is hard to stop because it has a very large mass.
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It makes sense to assume that a bullet travelling twice as fast would be twice as hard to stop, and a truck twice the mass would also be twice as hard to stop.
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Momentum is a useful quantity to consider when thinking about "unstoppability". It is also useful when considering collisions and explosions. It is defined as Momentum (kg.m.s -1 ) = Mass (kg) x Velocity (m.s -1 ) p = mv
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A truck has a mass of 10 000 kg and a velocity of 3 m.s-1. What is its momentum? Momentum = Mass x velocity = 10 000 x 3 = 30 000 kg.m.s -1.
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The momentum p of a body of constant mass m moving with velocity v is, by definition mv p = mv It is a vector quantity Its units are kg m s -1 or Ns It is the property of a moving body.
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1. In a collision between two objects, momentum is conserved (total momentum stays the same) 2. In an isolated system (no outside forces), momentum remains constant isolated system = translational equilibrium We can use this to calculate what happens after a collision (and in fact during an “explosion”). Momentum is not energy!
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To derive this law we apply Newton´s 2 nd law to each body and Newton´s 3 rd law to the system i.e. Imagine 2 bodies A and B interacting mass of m A and m B A has a velocity change of u A to v A and B has a velocity change of u B to v B during the time of the interaction t
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Then the force on A given by Newton 2 is F A = m A v A – m A u A t And the force on B is F B = m B v B – m B u B t But Newton 3 says that these 2 forces are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction
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Therefore m A v A – m A u A = - (m B v B – m B u B ) t t m A v A – m A u A = m B u B – m B v B Rearranging gives: m A u A + m B u B = m A v A + m B v B Total Momentum before = Total Momentum after
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A car of mass 1000 kg travelling at 5 m.s -1 hits a stationary truck of mass 2000 kg. After the collision they stick together. What is their joint velocity after the collision? What does ‘joint velocity’ mean? What ELSE does it mean?
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5 m.s -1 1000kg 2000kg Before After V m.s -1 Combined mass = 3000 kg Momentum before = 1000x5 + 2000x0 = 5000 kg.m.s -1 Momentum after = 3000v
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The law of conservation of momentum tells us that momentum before equals momentum after, so p 1total = p 2total 5000 = 3000v V = 5000/3000 = 1.67 m.s -1
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Momentum is a vector, so if velocities are in opposite directions we must take this into account in our calculations
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Snoopy (mass 10kg) running at 4.5 m.s -1 jumps onto a skateboard of mass 4 kg travelling in the opposite direction at 7 m.s -1 What is the velocity of Snoopy and skateboard after Snoopy has jumped on? I love physics
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10kg 4kg-4.5 m.s -1 7 m.s -1 Because they are in opposite directions, we make one velocity negative 14kg v m.s -1 Momentum before = 10 x -4.5 + 4 x 7 = -45 + 28 = -17 Momentum after = 14v
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Momentum before = Momentum after -17 = 14v V = -17/14 = -1.21 m.s -1 The negative sign tells us that the velocity is from left to right (we choose this as our “negative direction”)
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F = maF = m v - m u t t F = mv – mu F = p t t The rate of change of momentum of a body is proportional to the resultant force and occurs in the direction of the force.
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Where have you heard this term? Some Examples: I bought that from the internet on impulse after seeing the commercial on TV I got into a fight on impulse after being called a name
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F = pF = mv – mu t t Ft = mv – mu = p This quantity Ft is called the impulse of the force on the body It is a vector quantity Its units are kg m s -1 or Ns
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Ft = mv – mu = p The quantity Ft is called the impulse, and mv – mu is the change in momentum (v = final velocity and u = initial velocity) Impulse = Change in momentum
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Impulse is measured in N.s (Ft) or [kg.m.s -2 ]x[s] = [kg.m.s -1 ] (mv – mu)
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Note: For a ball (mass m) bouncing off a wall, don’t forget the initial and final velocity are in different directions, so you will have to make one of them negative. In this case mv – mu = 5m – (-3m) = 8m 5 m/s -3 m/s
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Dylan punches Joseph in the face. If Joseph’s head (mass 10.0 kg) was initially at rest and moves away from Dylan’s fist at 3.0 m/s, and the fist was in contact with the face for 0.20 seconds, what was the force of the punch? m = 10.0kg, t = 0.20s, u = 0, v = 3.0 m/s Ft = mv – mu 0.2F = 10x3 – 10x0 0.2F = 30 F = 30/0.2 = 150N
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A tennis ball (0.3 kg) hits a racquet at 3 m/s and rebounds in the opposite direction at 6 m/s. What impulse is given to the ball?
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3 m/s -6 m/s
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A tennis ball (0.3 kg) hits a racquet at 3 m/s and rebounds in the opposite direction at 6 m/s. What impulse is given to the ball? Impulse = mv – mu = = 0.3x-6 – 0.3x3 = -2.7kg.m.s -1 3 m/s -6 m/s
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