Is calculating the value for momentum rare in practical applications?

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Calculating the explicit value of momentum is rarely necessary in practical engineering applications, despite its fundamental importance in physics. While momentum is a conserved quantity, most engineers find they need to focus on energy or charge calculations instead. Mechanical engineers report infrequent use of momentum calculations in their work, and many engineering simulation programs do not provide momentum as an output. The discussion highlights the semantic differences in expressing Newton's laws, with momentum often being implicit rather than explicitly calculated. This raises interesting questions about the role of momentum in fields like traffic collision reconstruction and forensic engineering.
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Recently I started wondering why there seems to be so few practical/engineering applications where you need to calculate the momentum of something. I must emphasize that I don't mean usage of the concept of momentum or the law of conservation of momentum, but the value of the quantity itself.

Momentum is a conserved quantity like energy and charge, but it appears you rarely need to calculate an explicit value for it in practice. On the other hand, there is a plethora of practical/engineering applications where one needs to calculate the energy or charge of something.

I'm a mechanical engineer myself, and I don't think I've ever had to calculate the momentum of anything in the working life. I've worked quite a lot with engineering simulation programs, and to my knowledge none of them even offer momentum (or anything related to it) as an output quantity.

Do you agree? I find this very interesting since momentum is such a fundamental concept.
 
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Partially it is a matter of semantics. Newton's 2nd law f=ma can be expressed as:

##f=m\ddot x##

or as two first order equations.

##p=m\dot x##
##f=\dot p##

They say the same thing, but the first expression does not explicitly mention momentum while the second one does.
 
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