Conservation of Momentum

A 60 kg basketball player stands still to catch a ball. The player catches the 0.15 kg ball flying horizontally at a velocity of 34 m/s. What is the player’s velocity immediately after catching and holding onto the ball?

• 0.15 m/s
• 0.085 m/s
• -0.085 m/s
• -0.15 m/s

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A 120 kg lineman moving at 2 m/s to the left tackles an 80 kg fullback moving at 8 m/s to the right. If the fullback's velocity after they collide is 2 m/s, what is the lineman's velocity?

• 2 m/s

• 8.7 m/s

• 4.7 m/s

• 6 m/s

A 3,000 kg truck moving at 10 m/s north hits a 1,000 kg parked car which moves off at +5 m/s north . What is the velocity of the truck?

• 10 m/s

• 0 m/s

• 5 m/s

• 2 m/s

While playing pool, the white cue ball strikes the 8 ball. Before the collision, the cue ball's velocity was 10 m/s and the 8 ball was at rest. If both ball's have a mass of 0.15 kg and the cue ball's velocity after the collision is 2 m/s, what is the 8 ball's velocity?

• 2 m/s
• 8 m/s
• -2 m/s
• 1.5 m/s

The total momentum before a collision is _________ the total momentum after a collision.

• equal to 
• less than 
• more than
• It depends on the type of collision

A large box slides across a frictionless surface with a velocity of 12 m/s and a mass of 4 kg,  collides with a smaller box with a mass of 2 kg that is stationary.  The boxes stick together. What is the velocity of the two combined masses after collision?

• 0 m/s
• 4 m/s
• 8 m/s
• 12 m/s

A large box slides across a frictionless surface with a velocity of 12 m/s and a mass of 4 kg,  collides with a smaller box with a mass of 2 kg that is stationary.  The boxes stick together. What is the velocity of the two combined masses after collision?

• 0 m/s
• 4 m/s
• 8 m/s
• 12 m/s

An 1 kg object moving to the right at 2 m/s collides inelastically with a 1 kg object moving to the left at 2 m/s. The final velocity of both objects will be 

• 0 m/s
• 1 m/s
• 2 m/s
• 4 m/s

Two football players with mass 75 kg and 100 kg run directly toward each other with speeds of 6 m/s and 8 m/s respectively. If they grab each other as they collide, the combined speed of the two players just after the collision would be:

• 2 m/s 
• 3.4 m/s 
• 4.6 m/s 
• 7.1 m/s

In a physics experiment, two carts of mass 1.5 kg each are rolled towards each other.  The orange cart has a velocity of 2 m/s and the blue cart has a velocity of -1m/s.  The carts stick together when they collide.  Calculate their final speed.

• 0.5 m/s
• 1.0 m/s
• 0.33 m/s
• 0.67 m/s