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Chapter 9
Momentum
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Chapter 9 Momentum
Chapter Goal: To learn about impulse, momentum, and a

new problem-solving strategy based on conservation laws.
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Looking Ahead: Impulse
• This golf club delivers an impulse to the ball as the club
strikes it.
• You’ll learn that a longer-lasting, stronger force delivers a

greater impulse to an object.
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Looking Ahead: Momentum and Impulse
• The impulse delivered by the player’s head changes the ball’s
momentum.
• You’ll learn how to calculate this momentum change using the

impulse-momentum theorem.
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Looking Ahead: Conservation of Momentum
• The momentum of these pool balls before and after they
collide is the same—it is conserved.
• You’ll learn a powerful new before-and-after problem-solving

strategy using this law of conservation of momentum.
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Looking Ahead
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Looking Back: Newton’s Third Law
• In Section 4.7, you learned about
Newton’s third law. In this chapter,
you’ll apply this law in order to
understand the conservation of
momentum.
• Newton’s third law states that the
force that object B exerts on A has
equal magnitude but is directed
opposite to the force that A exerts
on B.

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Stop to Think
A hammer hits a nail. The force of
the nail on the hammer is
A. Greater than the force of the

hammer on the nail.
B. Less than the force of the
hammer on the nail.
C. Equal to the force of the hammer
on the nail.
D. Zero.

Reading Question 9.1
Impulse is
A. A force that is applied at a random time.

B. A force that is applied very suddenly.
C. The area under the force curve in a force-versus-time
graph.
D. The time interval that a force lasts.

Impulse is
A. A force that is applied at a random time.

B. A force that is applied very suddenly.
C. The area under the force curve in a force-versus-time
graph.
D. The time interval that a force lasts.

In the impulse approximation,
A. A large force acts for a very short time.

B. The true impulse is approximated by a rectangular pulse.
C. No external forces act during the time the impulsive force
acts.
D. The forces between colliding objects can be neglected.

In the impulse approximation,
A. A large force acts for a very short time.

B. The true impulse is approximated by a rectangular pulse.
C. No external forces act during the time the impulsive force
acts.
D. The forces between colliding objects can be neglected.

The total momentum of a system is conserved
A. Always.
B. If no external forces act on the system.
C. If no internal forces act on the system.
D. Never; it’s just an approximation.

The total momentum of a system is conserved
A. Always.
B. If no external forces act on the system.
C. If no internal forces act on the system.
D. Never; it’s just an approximation.

In an inelastic collision,
A. Impulse is conserved.
B. Momentum is conserved.
C. Force is conserved.
D. Energy is conserved.
E. Elasticity is conserved.

In an inelastic collision,
A. Impulse is conserved.
B. Momentum is conserved.
C. Force is conserved.
D. Energy is conserved.
E. Elasticity is conserved.

An object’s angular momentum is proportional to its
A. Mass.
B. Moment of inertia.
C. Kinetic energy.
D. Linear momentum.

An object’s angular momentum is proportional to its
A. Mass.
B. Moment of inertia.
C. Kinetic energy.
D. Linear momentum.

Section 9.1 Impulse

Impulse
• A collision is a short-duration interaction between two
objects.
• During a collision, it takes time to compress the object,

and it takes time for the object to re-expand.
• The duration of a collision depends on the materials.

Impulse
• When kicking a soccer
ball, the amount by which
the ball is compressed is a
measure of the magnitude
of the force the foot exerts
on the ball.
• The force is applied only
while the ball is in contact
with the foot.
• The impulse force is a large
force exerted during a short
interval of time.
Impulse
• The effect of an impulsive
force is proportional to
the area under the
force-versus-time curve.
• The area is called the
impulse J of the force.

QuickCheck 9.6
Two 1.0 kg stationary cue balls are struck by cue sticks. The
cues exert the forces shown. Which ball has the greater final
speed?
A. Ball 1
B. Ball 2
C. Both balls have the same final speed.
QuickCheck 9.6
Two 1.0 kg stationary cue balls are struck by cue sticks. The
cues exert the forces shown. Which ball has the greater final
speed?
A. Ball 1
B. Ball 2
C. Both balls have the same final speed.
Impulse
• It is useful to think of the
collision in terms of an
average force Favg.
• Favg is defined as the constant
force that has the same
duration Δt and the same
area under the force curve
as the real force.

Impulse
• Impulse has units of N  s, but N  s are equivalent to

kg  m/s.
• The latter are the preferred units for impulse.
• The impulse is a vector quantity, pointing in the direction
of the average force vector:

Example 9.1 Finding the impulse on a bouncing
ball
A rubber ball experiences the
force shown in FIGURE 9.4
as it bounces off the floor.
a. What is the impulse on the

ball?
b. What is the average force
on the ball?

ball (cont.)
PREPARE The impulse is the
area under the force curve.
Here the shape of the graph
is triangular, so we’ll need
to use the fact that the area
of a triangle is  height  base.

ball (cont.)
SOLVE a. The impulse is
b. From Equation 9.1,

J = Favg ∆t, we can find
the average force that
would give this same impulse:

ball (cont.)
ASSESS In this particular
example, the average value
of the force is half the
maximum value. This is not
surprising for a triangular
force because the area of a
triangle is half the base
times the height.

Section 9.2 Momentum and
the Impulse-Momentum Theorem

Momentum and the Impulse-Momentum
Theorem
• Intuitively we know that
giving a kick to a heavy
object will change its
velocity much less than
giving the same kick to a
light object.
• We can calculate how the
final velocity is related to
the initial velocity.

Theorem
• From Newton’s second law, the average acceleration of an
object during the time the force is being applied is
• The average acceleration is related to the change in the

velocity by
• We combine those two equations to find

Theorem
• We can rearrange that equation in terms of impulse:
• Momentum is the product of the object’s mass and

velocity. It has units of kg  m/s.

Theorem
• Momentum is a vector quantity
that points in the same direction
as the velocity vector:
• The magnitude of an object’s

momentum is simply the
product of the object’s mass
and speed.

Theorem

The Impulse-Momentum Theorem
• Impulse and momentum are related as:
• The impulse-momentum theorem states that an

impulse delivered to an object causes the object’s
momentum to change.
• Impulse can be written in terms of its x- and y-
components:


QuickCheck 9.2
A 2.0 kg object moving to the right with speed 0.50 m/s

experiences the force shown. What are the object’s speed
and direction after the force ends?
A. 0.50 m/s left

B. At rest
C. 0.50 m/s right
D. 1.0 m/s right
E. 2.0 m/s right

QuickCheck 9.2
A 2.0 kg object moving to the right with speed 0.50 m/s

experiences the force shown. What are the object’s speed
and direction after the force ends?
A. 0.50 m/s left

B. At rest
C. 0.50 m/s right
D. 1.0 m/s right
E. 2.0 m/s right
px = Jx or pfx = pix + Jx

QuickCheck 9.4
A force pushes the cart for 1 s, starting from rest. To achieve

the same speed with a force half as big, the force would
need to push for
1
A. s 4
1
B. s 2
C. 1 s
D. 2 s
E. 4 s

QuickCheck 9.4
A force pushes the cart for 1 s, starting from rest. To achieve

the same speed with a force half as big, the force would
need to push for
1
A. s 4
1
B. s 2
C. 1 s
D. 2 s
E. 4 s

Example 9.2 Calculating the change in
momentum
A ball of mass m = 0.25 kg
rolling to the right at 1.3 m/s
strikes a wall and rebounds
to the left at 1.1 m/s. What
is the change in the ball’s
momentum? What is the
impulse delivered to it by
the wall?

momentum (cont.)
PREPARE A visual overview of
the ball bouncing is shown in [Insert Figure 9.8 (repeated)]
FIGURE 9.8. This is a new kind
of visual overview, one in which
we show the situation “before”
and “after” the interaction. We’ll
have more to say about before-
and-after pictures in the next
section. The ball is moving along
the x-axis, so we’ll write the momentum in component form, as in
Equation 9.7. The change in momentum is then the difference
between the final and initial values of the momentum. By the impulse-
momentum theorem, the impulse is equal to this change in
momentum.
momentum (cont.)
SOLVE The x-component
[Insert Figure 9.8 (repeated)]
of the initial momentum is
The y-component of the

momentum is zero both
before and after the bounce.
After the ball rebounds,
the x-component is

momentum (cont.)
It is particularly important
[Insert Figure 9.8 (repeated)]
to notice that the x-component
of the momentum, like that
of the velocity, is negative.
This indicates that the ball
is moving to the left. The
change in momentum is

momentum (cont.)
By the impulse-momentum
theorem, the impulse
delivered to the ball by
the wall is equal to this
change, so
ASSESS The impulse is negative,

indicating that the force causing the impulse is pointing to
the left, which makes sense.

• The impulse-momentum theorem tells us
• The average force needed to stop an object is inversely

proportional to the duration of the collision.
• If the duration of the collision can be increased, the
force of the impact will be decreased.

• The spines of a hedgehog obviously help protect it from

predators. But they serve another function as well. If a hedgehog
falls from a tree—a not uncommon occurrence—it simply rolls
itself into a ball before it lands. Its thick spines then cushion the
blow by increasing the time it takes for the animal to come to
rest. Indeed, hedgehogs have been observed to fall out of trees on
purpose to get to the ground!
Example Problem
A 0.5 kg hockey puck slides to the right at 10 m/s. It is hit
with a hockey stick that exerts the force shown. What is its
approximate final speed?

QuickCheck 9.5
A light plastic cart and a heavy steel cart are both pushed
with the same force for 1.0 s, starting from rest. After the
force is removed, the
momentum of the light
plastic cart is ________ that
of the heavy steel cart.
A. Greater than
B. Equal to
C. Less than
D. Can’t say. It depends on how big the force is.
QuickCheck 9.5
A light plastic cart and a heavy steel cart are both pushed
with the same force for 1.0 s, starting from rest. After the
force is removed, the
momentum of the light
plastic cart is ________ that
of the heavy steel cart.
A. Greater than
B. Equal to Same force, same time  same impulse
C. Less than Same impulse  same change of momentum
D. Can’t say. It depends on how big the force is.

Try It Yourself: Water Balloon Catch
If you’ve ever tried to catch a water balloon, you may have
learned the hard way not to catch it with your arms rigidly
extended. The brief collision time implies a large, balloon-
bursting force. A better way to catch a water balloon is to
pull your arms in toward your body as you catch it,
lengthening the collision time and hence reducing the force
on the balloon.

Text: p. 259

Total Momentum
• If there is a system of particles
moving, then the system as a
whole has an overall momentum.
• The total momentum of a system
of particles is the vector sum of
the momenta of the individual
particles:

Section 9.3 Solving Impulse and
Momentum Problems

Solving Impulse and Momentum Problems
Text: p. 260
Example 9.3 Force in hitting a baseball
A 150 g baseball is thrown with a
speed of 20 m/s. It is hit straight
back toward the pitcher at a speed
of 40 m/s. The impulsive force of
the bat on the ball has the shape
shown in FIGURE 9.10. What is
the maximum force Fmax that the
bat exerts on the ball? What is the
average force that the bat exerts
on the ball?

Example 9.3 Force in hitting a baseball (cont.)
PREPARE We can model the
interaction as a collision.
FIGURE 9.11 is a before-and-after
visual overview in which the steps
from Tactics Box 9.1 are explicitly
noted. Because Fx is positive
(a force to the right), we know the
ball was initially moving toward
the left and is hit back toward the right. Thus we converted
the statements about speeds into information about
velocities, with (vx)i negative.

SOLVE In the last several chapters
we’ve started the mathematical
solution with Newton’s second
law. Now we want to use the
impulse-momentum theorem:
We know the velocities before

and after the collision, so we
can find the change in the ball’s
momentum:

The force curve is a triangle with
height Fmax and width 0.60 ms.
As in Example 9.1, the area
under the curve is
According to the
impulse-momentum theorem,
∆px = Jx, so we have

Thus the maximum force is
Using Equation 9.1, we find that

the average force, which depends
on the collision duration
∆t = 6.0  10–4 s, has the smaller
value:
ASSESS Fmax is a large force, but

quite typical of the impulsive forces
during collisions.
The Impulse Approximation
• The impulse approximation states that we can ignore the
small forces that act during the brief time of the impulsive
force.
• We consider only the momenta and velocities immediately
before and immediately after the collisions.

QuickCheck 9.1
The cart’s change of

momentum px is
A. –20 kg m/s
B. –10 kg m/s
C. 0 kg m/s
D. 10 kg m/s
E. 30 kg m/s

QuickCheck 9.1
The cart’s change of

momentum px is
A. –20 kg m/s
B. –10 kg m/s
C. 0 kg m/s
D. 10 kg m/s
E. 30 kg m/s
px = 10 kg m/s  (20 kg m/s) = 30 kg m/s
Negative initial momentum because motion

is to the left and vx < 0.
Example Problem
A 500 kg rocket sled is coasting at 20 m/s. It then turns on
its rocket engines for 5.0 s, with a thrust of 1000 N. What is
its final speed?

Example Problem
A car traveling at 20 m/s crashes into a bridge abutment.
Estimate the force on the driver if the driver is stopped by
A. A 20-m-long row of water-filled barrels.

B. The crumple zone of her car (~1 m). Assume a constant
acceleration.

Section 9.4 Conservation of Momentum

Conservation of Momentum
• The forces acting on two balls
during a collision form an
action/reaction pair. They
have equal magnitude but
opposite directions (Newton’s
third law).
• If the momentum of ball 1
increases, the momentum of
ball 2 will decrease by the
same amount.

Law of Conservation of Momentum
• There is no change in the total
momentum of the system no
matter how complicated the
forces are between the particles.
• The total momentum of the
system is conserved.

• Internal forces act only
between particles within a
system.
• The total momentum of a
system subjected to only
internal forces is conserved.

QuickCheck 9.7
You awake in the night to find that your living room is on fire.
Your one chance to save yourself is to throw something that will
hit the back of your bedroom door and close it, giving you a few
seconds to escape out the window. You happen to have both a
sticky ball of clay and a super-bouncy Superball next to your
bed, both the same size and same mass. You’ve only time to
throw one. Which will it be? Your life depends on making the
right choice!
A. Throw the Superball.

B. Throw the ball of clay.
C. It doesn’t matter. Throw either.
QuickCheck 9.7
You awake in the night to find that your living room is on fire.
Your one chance to save yourself is to throw something that will
hit the back of your bedroom door and close it, giving you a few
seconds to escape out the window. You happen to have both a
sticky ball of clay and a super-bouncy Superball next to your
bed, both the same size and same mass. You’ve only time to
throw one. Which will it be? Your life depends on making the
right choice!
A. Throw the Superball. Larger p  more impulse to door

B. Throw the ball of clay.
C. It doesn’t matter. Throw either.
QuickCheck 9.8
A mosquito and a truck have a head-on collision. Splat!

Which has a larger change of momentum?
A. The mosquito
B. The truck
C. They have the same change of momentum.
D. Can’t say without knowing their initial velocities.

QuickCheck 9.8
A mosquito and a truck have a head-on collision. Splat!

Which has a larger change of momentum?
A. The mosquito
B. The truck
C. They have the same change of momentum.
D. Can’t say without knowing their initial velocities.
Momentum is conserved, so pmosquito + ptruck = 0.

Equal magnitude (but opposite sign) changes in momentum.

• External forces are forces from agents outside the system.
• External forces can change the momentum of the system.

• The change in the total momentum is
• is the net force due to external forces.

• If the total momentum of the system does not
change.
• An isolated system is a system with no net external force acting on
it, leaving the momentum unchanged.

• The law of conservation of momentum for an isolated

system is written
• The total momentum after an interaction is equal to

the total momentum before the interaction.

• Since momentum is a vector, we can rewrite the law of
conservation of momentum for an isolated system:

Example 9.5 Speed of ice skaters pushing off
Two ice skaters, Sandra and
David, stand facing each other
on frictionless ice. Sandra has
a mass of 45 kg, David a mass
of 80 kg. They then push off
from each other. After the push,
Sandra moves off at a speed
of 2.2 m/s. What is David’s speed?

(cont.)
PREPARE The two skaters interact
with each other, but they form an
isolated system because, for each
skater, the upward normal force of
the ice balances their downward
weight force to make
Thus the total momentum of the system of the two skaters is
conserved.
FIGURE 9.17 shows a before-and-after visual overview for the
two skaters. The total momentum before they push off is
because both skaters are at rest. Consequently, the total momen-
tum will still be 0 after they push off.
(cont.)
SOLVE Since the motion is only
in the x-direction, we’ll need to
consider only x-components of
momentum. We write Sandra’s
initial momentum as
(pSx)i = mS(vSx)i, where mS is
her mass and (vSx)i her initial velocity. Similarly, we write
David’s initial momentum as (pDx)i = mD(vDx)i. Both these
momenta are zero because both skaters are initially at rest.

(cont.)
We can now apply the
mathematical statement of
momentum conservation,
Equation 9.15. Writing the
final momentum of Sandra as
mS(vSx)f and that of David
as mD(vDx)f , we have

(cont.)
Solving for (vDx)f , we find
David moves backward with a speed of 1.2 m/s.

(cont.)
Notice that we didn’t need
to know any details about the
force between David and
Sandra in order to find David’s
final speed. Conservation of
momentum mandates this
result.
ASSESS It seems reasonable that Sandra, whose mass is
less than David’s, would have the greater final speed.

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It Depends on the System
• The goal is to choose
a system where
momentum will be
conserved.
• For a skateboarder, if
we choose just the
person, there is a
nonzero net force on
the system.
• If we choose the system to be the person and the cart, the
net force is zero and the momentum is conserved.

Example Problem
Jack stands at rest on a skateboard. The mass of Jack and
the skateboard together is 75 kg. Ryan throws a 3.0 kg ball
horizontally to the right at 4.0 m/s to Jack, who catches it.
What is the final speed of Jack and the skateboard?

Explosions
• An explosion is when the
particles of the system
move apart after a brief,
intense interaction.
• An explosion is the opposite
of a collision.
• The forces are internal
forces and if the system is
isolated, the total momentum
is conserved.

QuickCheck 9.10
The two boxes are on a frictionless surface. They had been

sitting together at rest, but an explosion between them has
just pushed them apart. How fast is the 2-kg box going?
A. 1 m/s
B. 2 m/s
C. 4 m/s
D. 8 m/s
E. There’s not enough information to tell.

QuickCheck 9.10
The two boxes are on a frictionless surface. They had been

sitting together at rest, but an explosion between them has
just pushed them apart. How fast is the 2-kg box going?
A. 1 m/s
B. 2 m/s
C. 4 m/s
D. 8 m/s

QuickCheck 9.11
The 1-kg box is sliding along a frictionless surface. It

collides with and sticks to the 2-kg box. Afterward, the
speed of the two boxes is
A. 0 m/s
B. 1 m/s
C. 2 m/s
D. 3 m/s

QuickCheck 9.11
The 1-kg box is sliding along a frictionless surface. It

collides with and sticks to the 2-kg box. Afterward, the
speed of the two boxes is
A. 0 m/s
B. 1 m/s
C. 2 m/s
D. 3 m/s

Example 9.7 Recoil speed of a rifle
A 30 g ball is fired from a
1.2 kg spring-loaded toy rifle
with a speed of 15 m/s. What
is the recoil speed of the rifle?
PREPARE As the ball moves
down the barrel, there are
complicated forces exerted
on the ball and on the rifle. However, if we take the system
to be the ball + rifle, these are internal forces that do not
change the total momentum.

Example 9.7 Recoil speed of a rifle (cont.)
The external forces of the
rifle’s and ball’s weights are
balanced by the external force
exerted by the person holding
the rifle, so This is
an isolated system and the
law of conservation of
momentum applies.
FIGURE 9.20 shows a visual overview before and
after the ball is fired. We’ll assume the ball is fired in the
+x-direction.

SOLVE The x-component of the
total momentum is Px =
pBx + pRx. Everything is at
rest before the trigger is pulled,
so the initial momentum is
zero. After the trigger is
pulled, the internal force of
the spring pushes the ball
down the barrel and pushes the rifle backward.
Conservation of momentum gives

Solving for the rifle’s velocity, we find
The minus sign indicates that

the rifle’s recoil is to the left.
The recoil speed is 0.38 m/s.

ASSESS Real rifles fire their
bullets at much higher
velocities, and their recoil
is correspondingly higher.
Shooters need to brace
themselves against the
“kick” of the rifle back
against their shoulder.

Section 9.5 Inelastic Collisions

Inelastic Collisions
• A perfectly inelastic [Insert Figure 9.22]
collision is a collision in
which the two objects stick
together and move with a
common final velocity.
• Examples of perfectly
inelastic collisions include
clay hitting the floor and
a bullet embedding itself
in wood.

QuickCheck 9.9
The two boxes are sliding along a frictionless surface. They

collide and stick together. Afterward, the velocity of the
two boxes is
A. 2 m/s to the left

B. 1 m/s to the left
C. 0 m/s, at rest
D. 1 m/s to the right
E. 2 m/s to the right

QuickCheck 9.9
The two boxes are sliding along a frictionless surface. They

collide and stick together. Afterward, the velocity of the
two boxes is
A. 2 m/s to the left

B. 1 m/s to the left
C. 0 m/s, at rest
D. 1 m/s to the right
E. 2 m/s to the right

Example 9.8 A perfectly inelastic collision of
railroad cars
In assembling a train from
[Insert Figure 9.23]
several railroad cars, two
of the cars, with masses
2.0  104 kg and 4.0  104 kg,
are rolled toward each other.
When they meet, they couple
and stick together. The lighter
car has an initial speed of 1.5 m/s; the collision causes it to
reverse direction at 0.25 m/s. What was the initial speed of
the heavier car?

railroad cars (cont.)
PREPARE We model the cars
as particles and define the
two cars as the system. This
is an isolated system, so its
total momentum is conserved
in the collision. The cars stick
together, so this is a perfectly
inelastic collision.
FIGURE 9.23 shows a visual overview. We’ve chosen to let the
2.0  104 kg car (car 1) start out moving to the right, so (v1x)i is a
positive 1.5 m/s. The cars move to the left after the collision, so their
common final velocity is (vx)f = −0.25 m/s. You can see that velocity
(v2x)i must be negative in order to “turn around” both cars.
SOLVE The law of conservation of momentum, (Px)f =

(Px)i, is
where we made use of the fact that the combined mass

m1  m2 moves together after the collision.
We can easily solve for the
[Insert Figure 9.23
initial velocity of the
(repeated)]
4.0  104 kg car:

The negative sign, which we
[Insert Figure 9.23
anticipated, indicates that
(repeated)]
the heavier car started out
moving to the left. The initial
speed of the car, which we
were asked to find, is
1.1 m/s.
ASSESS The key step in solving inelastic collision
problems is that both objects move after the collision with
the same velocity. You should thus choose a single symbol
(here, (vx)f) for this common velocity.
Example Problem
A 10 g bullet is fired into a 1.0 kg wood block, where it
lodges. Subsequently the block slides 4.0 m across a floor
(μk = 0.20 for wood on wood). What was the bullet’s speed?

Section 9.6 Momentum and Collisions
in Two Dimensions

Momentum and Collision in Two Dimensions
• When the motion of the collisions occur in two
dimensions, we must solve for each component
of the momentum:
• In these collisions, the

individual momenta can
change but the total
momentum does not.

Example Problem
Two pucks of equal mass 100 g collide on an air hockey
table. Neglect friction. Prior to the collision, puck 1 travels
in a direction that can be considered the +x-axis at 1 m/s,
and puck 2 travels in the –y-direction at 2 m/s prior to the
collision. After the collision, puck 2 travels 30 degrees
above the +x-direction (between +x and +y) at 0.8 m/s. What
is the velocity (direction and speed) of puck 1 after the
collision? How does the final kinetic energy compare to the
initial kinetic energy?

Section 9.7 Angular Momentum

Angular Momentum
• Momentum is not conserved
for a spinning object because
the direction of motion keeps
changing.
• Still, if it weren’t for friction, a
spinning bicycle wheel would
keep turning.
• The quantity that expresses this
idea for circular motion is called
angular momentum.

Angular Momentum
• We can calculate the angular momentum L.
• Newton’s second law gives the angular acceleration:
• We also know that the angular acceleration is defined as
• If we set those equations equal and rearrange, we find

Angular Momentum
• For linear motion, the impulse-momentum theorem is
written
• The quantity Iω is the rotational equivalent of linear

momentum, so it is reasonable to define angular
momentum L as
• The SI units of angular momentum are kg  m2/s.

Angular Momentum

Conservation of Angular Momentum
• Angular momentum can be written
• If the net external torque on an object is zero, then the

change in angular momentum is zero as well:

Conservation of Angular Momentum
• The total angular momentum is the sum of the angular
momenta of all the objects in the system.
• If no net external torque acts on the system, then the law
of conservation of angular momentum is written

Example 9.11 Analyzing a spinning ice skater
An ice skater spins around on the tips of his blades while
holding a 5.0 kg weight in each hand. He begins with his arms
straight out from his body and his hands 140 cm
apart. While spinning at 2.0 rev/s, he pulls the weights in and
holds them 50 cm apart against his shoulders. If we neglect the
mass of the skater, how fast is he spinning after pulling the
weights in?

(cont.)
PREPARE There is no external torque acting on the system
consisting of the skater and the weights, so their angular

momentum is conserved. FIGURE 9.29 shows a before-and-
after visual overview, as seen from above.

(cont.)
SOLVE The two weights have
the same mass, move in circles
with the same radius, and have
the same angular velocity. Thus
the total angular momentum is
twice that of one weight. The mathematical statement of
angular momentum conservation, If f = Iii, is

(cont.)
Because the angular velocity
is related to the rotation
frequency f by  = 2f, this
equation simplifies to
When he pulls the weights in, his rotation frequency

increases to

(cont.)
ASSESS Pulling in the weights
increases the skater’s spin from
2 rev/s to 16 rev/s. This is
somewhat high because we
neglected the mass of the skater,
but it illustrates how skaters do “spin up” by pulling their
mass in toward the rotation axis.

Example Problem
Bicycle riders can stay upright because a torque is required
to change the direction of the angular momentum of the
spinning wheels. A bike with wheels with a radius of 33 cm
and a mass of 1.5 kg (each) travels at a speed of 10 mph.
What is the angular momentum of the bike? Treat the
wheels of the bike as though all the mass is at the rim.

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Chapter Goal: To learn about impulse, momentum, and a

• You’ll learn that a longer-lasting, stronger force delivers a

• You’ll learn how to calculate this momentum change using the

• You’ll learn a powerful new before-and-after problem-solving

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A. Greater than the force of the

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A. A force that is applied at a random time.

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A. A force that is applied at a random time.

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A. A large force acts for a very short time.

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A. A large force acts for a very short time.

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• During a collision, it takes time to compress the object,

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• Impulse has units of N  s, but N  s are equivalent to

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a. What is the impulse on the

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b. From Equation 9.1,

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• The average acceleration is related to the change in the

• We combine those two equations to find

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• Momentum is the product of the object’s mass and

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• The magnitude of an object’s

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• The impulse-momentum theorem states that an

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A 2.0 kg object moving to the right with speed 0.50 m/s

A. 0.50 m/s left

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A 2.0 kg object moving to the right with speed 0.50 m/s

A. 0.50 m/s left

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