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    This document discusses momentum, impulse, and elastic and inelastic collisions. It provides formulas for calculating momentum as mass times velocity, and impulse as force times time. It also gives the formulas for calculating velocities during inelastic and elastic collisions, where momentum and energy are conserved respectively. As an example, it shows the calculation of the final velocity of two cars with equal mass colliding inelastically.

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    This document discusses momentum, impulse, and elastic and inelastic collisions. It provides formulas for calculating momentum as mass times velocity, and impulse as force times time. It also gives the formulas for calculating velocities during inelastic and elastic collisions, where momentum and energy are conserved respectively. As an example, it shows the calculation of the final velocity of two cars with equal mass colliding inelastically.

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    This document discusses momentum, impulse, and elastic and inelastic collisions. It provides formulas for calculating momentum as mass times velocity, and impulse as force times time. It also gives the formulas for calculating velocities during inelastic and elastic collisions, where momentum and energy are conserved respectively. As an example, it shows the calculation of the final velocity of two cars with equal mass colliding inelastically.

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    For momentum it is represented by p = mv, or momentum is equals to mass times velocity.

    For impulse it is force times time for example

    A 27.2g bullet is fired with a velocity of 87.3 m/s from a gun with a mass of 2.45 kg. Find the impulse on
    the arrow.

    If you are going to analyze the situation, you might think that there is no force, but there is actually force,
    that is the mass of the bullet divided by 1000 to get kg then multiply it with the velocity of the bullet to
    have the final momentum, which is 2.37 kg m/s. This is already the impulse since the original momentum
    is zero from the initial state of the arrow, so we will have 2.37 kg m/s – 0 = 2.37 kg m/s, and this is the
    change in momentum and as you know change in momentum is impulse

    Collision, there are two types of collision elastic and inelastic, if it is elastic there is the rebound effect or
    there will be bouncing off from one another. This happens because momentum is conserved (the original
    momentum will be the final momentum) and energy is conserved (the initial amount of kinetic energy is
    the same as the final amount of kinetic energy). While, in inelastic collision momentum is the only
    quantity that is conserved, energy is not conserved thus energy is lost after the collision. This means that
    objects stick together after the collision and the objects will be regarded as one, mass are added and they
    have a common velocity (Vc).

    The different formulas to be used are derived from the law of conservation of momentum and energy;

    For inelastic collision:

    (mA  mB )vc  mAu A  mBuB 1


    2 mAu A2  12 mBuB2  12 (mA  mB )vc2  Loss

    For elastic collision:

    mAvA  mB vB  mAu A  mBuB

    A 2200kg car travelling at 30m/s collides with another 2200kg car that is at rest. The two bumpers lock
    and the cars move forward together. What is their final velocity?

    15m/s

    This is an example of an inelastic collision, as the two cars stick together after colliding. We can assume
    momentum is conserved.

    To make the equation easier, let's call the first car "1" and the second car "2."
    Using conservation of momentum and the equation for momentum, p=mv, we can set up the following
    equation.

    m1v1initial+m2v2initial=(m1+m2)vfinal

    Since the cars stick together, they will have the same final velocity. We know the second car starts at rest,
    and the velocity of the first car is given. Plug in these values and solve for the final velocity.

    (2200kg∗30m/s)+(2200kg∗0m/s)=(2200kg+2200kg)vfinal

    66000kg⋅m/s=(4400kg)vfinal2

    66000kg⋅m/s4400kg=vfinal

    15m/s=vfinal

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