Who Discovered the Formulas for Momentum and Impulse?

[CrazyGuy2216]

Hey, I registered on here just for this question. I will be posting here regularly though.
I want to know who discovered the formulas for momentum and impulse. That's all I really want to know. It would be nice if someone would reply to this, thanks.

 

[radou]

Hey, I registered on here just for this question. I will be posting here regularly though.
I want to know who discovered the formulas for momentum and impulse. That's all I really want to know. It would be nice if someone would reply to this, thanks.

The impulse - momentum relation is derived from Newton's second law. This pretty much answers your question, I'd say.

 

[vanesch]

It is not clear to me up to what point Galileo already knew about momentum being m x v.
Also Descartes had a role in it.

It even goes back earlier according to a reference on a Wikipedia entry (momentum), Ibn Sina who lived around the year 1000 ad. :

A. Sayili (1987), "Ibn Sīnā and Buridan on the Motion of the Projectile", Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 500 (1), p. 477–482:

"Thus he considered impetus as proportional to weight times velocity. Avicenna was later to be given the title of the father of momentum. In other words, his conception of impetus comes very close to the concept of momentum of Newtonian mechanics."

(I didn't check this)