Conservation of momentum Definition and 752 Threads

Homework Statement Two billiard balls collide on a horizontal table (assume no friction)). Billiard ball A has a mass of 0.175 kg,travelling at 1.20 m/s [E 40 deg S]. Billiard ball B has a mass of 0.225 kg, traveling at 0.68 m/s [E]. The velocity of billiard ball B after collision is 0.93...

Homework Statement Hi, new to the forums and I was wondering if someone could help me figure out what I am doing wrong. Thanx in advance. Gayle runs at a speed of 4.38 m/s and dives on a sled, which is initially at rest on the top of a frictionless snow-covered hill. After she has descended a...

Suppose A and B are in uniform motion toward each other, coming from the right and left respectively. A claims B to move 100 mph to the left and B claims that A moves 100 mph to the right. Now let us assume that A and B collide together and they crumple up into a combined object C, and let...

Homework Statement a 120g arrow moving at 75m/s strikes and sticks in a 3.63kg wooden block, initially at rest. If the coefficient of friction between the block and the table it sists on is 0.409, how far does the block slide before stopping? Homework Equations m1v1+v1+m2v2=m1v1'+m2v2'...

Homework Statement A bullet of mass m = 6.32 g is fired into a block of mass M = 2.30 kg that is initially at rest on a rough surface. (The coefficient of friction is 0.28 between the block and the surface.) The bullet ends up stuck in the block, and together they slide across the surface...

Ok so I want to know if conservation of momentum can be applies in a case of shooting a bullet to the wall I am talking about in the x direction of course since gravity is an external force in the y direction so a let say I shoot a bullet in a straight angle to the wall so it has huge x...

Homework Statement A bullet is shot horizontally into a block suspended by two strings. The bullet remains embedded in the wood and the wood and bullet together suspend upward. a) Explain why the horizontal momentum of the bullet-wood system is conserved during the collision even though the...

If I were to just spawn into a complete vacuum of space with no initial velocity (momentum). Disregarding the fact that I would die due to lack of pressure and oxygen, would I be able to move my arms or legs at all because I would have no place to take the momentum from?

Homework Statement A 0.028 kg bullet is fired vertically at 165 m/s into a 0.15 kg baseball that is initially at rest. How high does the combined bullet and baseball rise after the collision, assuming the bullet embeds itself in the ball? Homework Equations mv + mv = mv + mv The...

Homework Statement A railroad car of mass 27000 kg moving at 2.00 m/s collides and couples with two coupled railroad cars, each of the same mass as the single car and moving in the same direction at 1.20 m/s. (a) What is the speed of the three coupled cars after the collision? Homework...

Homework Statement An astronaut in her space suit has a total mass of m1 = 91.3 kg, including suit and oxygen tank. Her tether line loses its attachment to her spacecraft while she's on a spacewalk. Initially at rest with respect to her spacecraft , she throws her oxygen tank of mass m2 =...

Homework Statement A bullet with mass 20 grams and velocity 100 m/s collides with a wooden block of mass 2 kg. The wooden block is initially at rest, and is connected to a spring with k = 800 N/m. The other end of the spring is attached to an immovable wall. What is the maximum compression...

Homework Statement A cart (m1 = 130 kg) is moving to the right along a track at v1i = 24 m/s when it hits a stationary cart (m2 = 350 kg) and rebounds with a speed of v1f = 4 m/s in the opposite direction. a) With what speed does the 350 kg cart move after the collision? A: 10.4 m/s An...

Picture the Earth without any atmosphere or air molecules. If I were to throw a rock with 0.5 kg straight up from the surface of the Earth it will reach a velocity of zero at its peak? At this moment the momentum of the rock becomes zero. Where does the momentum go if its always conserved?

I know Euler's first law applies to a single body, but can we use it for a system of bodies? Or should we invoke the conservation of momentum to obtain the same result for a system of bodies?

Hello everyone, Let's say there was gun and a bullet with a mass of 1kg at rest. The bullet and guns speeds were 2 m/s in opposite directions after firing if I right the equations. Kinetic energy 0.5m1v12 + 0.5m2v12 = 0.5m1v22 + 0.5m2v22 Why doesn't this equation work when objects are at...

Wherever I have read, the conservation of momentum is a universal truth. This is the basis, as I undertsand it, to the mass equation: m = m0/SQRT(1 - v2/c2) in which m0 = the mass in the rest frame and m is the mass in the moving frame relative to the rest frame moving at v. The idea...

Two baseballs undergo a head-on collision. Ball 1 is twice as heavy as ball 2. Ball 1 is traveling at an initial speed of v1, while ball 2 had an initial speed of v2. Elastic collision. If ball 1 travels at a speed of 7/5v1 after impact, what is the speed of ball 2? Conservation of...

Homework Statement There is a hemispherical track of radius R = 4m. A block B is lying at rest at the bottom of the track. A block A is pushed along the horizontal portion of the track with speed u. Collision between A and B is perfectly elastic. Find u such that B reaches P (the end of...

Homework Statement A falling rock gains momentum as its speed increases. Does this observation contradict the law of conservation of momentum. Explain. Answer in the textbook: This observation does not contradict the law of conservation of momentum. The momentum of the Earth increases...

Homework Statement Object A has a mass of 2.0 kg and an initial velocity of 2.5 m/s. It strikes Object B, which is at rest and has a mass of 2.0 kg as well. After the collision, the objects travel in different directions, with Object B traveling at an angle of 44 degrees from its...

Homework Statement Valentina, the Russian Cosmonaut, goes outside the ship for a spacewalk, but when she is floating 15m from the ship, her tether catches on a sharp piece of metal and is severed. Valentina tosses her 2.0kg camera away from the spaceship with a speed of 12m/s. a.) How fast...

Homework Statement Anthony and Sissy are participating in the "Roll-a-Rama" roller-skating dance championship. While 75kg Anthony roller-skates backwards at 3m/s, 60kg Sissy jumps into his arms with a velocity of 5m/s in the same direction. m1= 75kg v1= 3m/s m2= 60kg v2= 5m/s v' = ?Homework...

Homework Statement A spring with spring constant K is compressed by x and used to shoot a ball of mass m into an initially stationary block also of mass m. The ball sticks to the block after the collision. Calculate the final velocity of the ball + block. Homework Equations The...

Homework Statement In which one of the following situations is linear momentum not conserved? A) A bomb suspended by a string explodes into one hundred fragments. B) A bowling ball collides with ten pins. C) A golf ball is struck by a club. D) An astronaut floating in space throws a hammer...

Homework Statement Objects A and C are made of different materials, with different “springiness,” but they have the same mass and are initially at rest. When ball B collides with object A, the ball ends up at rest. When ball B is thrown with the same speed and collides with object C, the...

Homework Statement http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/5489/25765454.png A projectile is launched from a cliff above level ground. At launch the projectile is 35 meters above the base of the cliff and has a velocity of 50 meters per second at an angle 37° with the horizontal. Air resistance...

Homework Statement I'm getting fairly frustrated seeing as I've been working on this 'easy' problem for several hours yet still can't get the correct solution. The problem is as follows: A 180 lb- man and a 120-lb woman stand side by side at the same end of a 300-lb boat, ready to dive, each...

"high school" algebra -> relativistic conservation of momentum and energy Homework Statement Consider a head-on, elastic collision between a massless photon (momentum po and energy Eo) and a stationary free electron. (a) Assuming that the photon bounces directly back with momentum p (in the...

(wasn't sure if I should post this in the general physics or in the "homework" forum... this question is loosely based on a problem found in a printed book, but I have modified it myself... regardless, here is the situation) Homework Statement A person is sliding down a frictionless...

Homework Statement Two boats move parallel each other inertially in opposite directions. They both have a speed of 6m/s. When they are near we move a load from one boat to the other. After this the second boat continues in the same direction with a speed of 4m/s. Find the mass of the second...

I have done the question already and attained the correct answer. However if it was a written question i do not know how i could prove the following. A 7.3 x 10^3 kg space vehicle and its empty 6.8 x 10^2 booster unit are moving together through space at 370 m/s. An explosion lasting 2.2s is...

In a test laboratory, a car is crashed into a concrete wall and comes to rest. There is no damage to the wall. Explain of how the principle of conservation of momentum applies to this situation. Answer: The Earth plus car recoils with same momentum as the car had Why "the Earth" and not...

Not sure where to post this as it isn't actually homework, all variables are made up. Homework Statement A car, weighing 1000kg and moving at 3m/s puts it's breaks on and slows down to a stop. What happens to the momentum? Homework Equations p=mv The Attempt at a Solution...

I'm having a bit of trouble understanding the concepts of momentum conservation. Let's say I'm standing on a frictionless surface and I throw a 3kg brick horizontally with a velocity of 4m/s. In this scenario I can see that I'm going to be repelled backwards at a velocity of 12/my mass in kg but...

Here is the question 5. A long board is free to slide on a sheet of frictionless ice. As shown in the top view above, a skater skates to the board and hops onto one end, causing the board to slide and rotate. In this situation, which of the following occurs? A) Linear momentum is...

Hey everyone. In class, we conducted a lab to verify the law of conservation of momentum. On a frictionless surface (glass surface), we had to collide two masses and record the time, and then make calculations for the velocity... and using that, calculate the initial and final momentums and...

Homework Statement A block of mass m1 = 2 kg slides along a frictionless table with speed 10 m/s. Directly in front of it, and moving in the same direction with a speed of 3 m/s is a block of mass m2 = 5kg. A massless spring with spring constant k = 1120 N/m is attached to the second block...

Homework Statement Two masses, m1 = 4 kg and m2 = 12 kg, have initial velocities of v1i = 28 m/s [+x 35 +y] and v2i = [-y 60 +x]. If the first mass has a final velocity of v1f = 18 m/s [-y 40 +x], find: a). The final velocity of m2. b). Whether or not the collision can be said to be...

Hey All, I was looking at several conservation of momentum question, and one question caused me to thinking about something. In those planet versus satellite questions, a satellite passes through a moving planet and the gravitational pull of the planet alters the final satellite's velocity and...

Hello All, I am trying to understand the solution of a problem that uses calculus and the conservation of momentum principle.The problem is here: http://www.physics.harvard.edu/academics/undergrad/probweek/prob79.pdf and the answer is here...

Homework Statement A 950kg compact car is moving with the velocity ⃗v1 = 32 ˆx + 17 ˆy m/s. It skids on an icy, frictionless patch and collides with a 450kg hay wagon moving with velocity ⃗v2 = 12ˆx +14ˆy m/s. If the two stay together, what is their velocity? Homework Equations...

Homework Statement A firecracker, initially at rest, explodes into two fragments. The first, of mass 14g, moves in the positive x direction at 48m/s. The second moves at 32m/s. Find the mass and direction of its motion. Homework Equations p=mv The Attempt at a Solution So I...

Homework Statement A student performs a ballistic pendulum experiment using an apparatus similar to that shown it the figure. Initially the bullet is fired at the block while the block is at rest (at its lowest swingin point). After the bullet hits the block, the block rises to its highest...

Homework Statement So you've got two people standing on a boat, everything at rest, and the masses of both people as well as the boat are known. Let's call them Richard and Sandra, so the variables are Mr (mass of Richard), Ms (mass of Sandra), and Mb (mass of boat). When one of these...

Homework Statement A 93 kg astronaut and a 1500 kg satellite are at rest relative to the space shuttle. The astronaut pushes on the satellite, giving it a speed of 0.16 m/s directly away from the shuttle. Seven-and-a-half seconds later the astronaut comes into contact with the shuttle. What...

Homework Statement photon scatter angle is theta, electron recoil angle is phi prove tan(phi) = (1+hf/mc^2)^-1 cot(theta/2) Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution Conservation of energy is the same as in here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_scattering...

Homework Statement I am basically being asked to use the law of conservation of momentum and kinetic energy to derive two equations for the final velocity of the two masses involved in the system. (i.e. \acute{v_{1}} and \acute{v_{2}}) Homework Equations Conservation of Momentum...

Homework Statement A 238U nucleus is moving in the x direction at 4.5*10^5 m/s when it decays into an alpha particle 4He and a 234Th nucleus. 1.) If the alpha particle moves off at 34degrees above the x-axis with a speed of 2.0*10^7 m/s, what is the speed of the thorium nucleus? 2.)What...

Homework Statement A hollow box, mass M, rests on a frictionless surface. Inside the box is a spring, spring constant k, attached to one wall. A block, mass m, is pushed against the spring so that it is compressed an amount A. a. If after leaving the spring the block has velocity of...