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elissadi
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Can anyone explain to me in simple terms about momentum and conservation of momentum. I understand the terms, but don't understand how it relates to a smaller object sliding sideways into a non-moving larger object. Before the smaller object hits the larger, doesn't it have a larger momentum? How can the smaller object transfer its momentum to a larger object which has mass but no velocity? I am assuming that something small hitting something bigger would not conserve any momentum because of their differences.