conservation of momentum

Pick all of the scenarios below that are elastic collisions.

• Two bouncy balls hitting each other.

• A pitcher throws a baseball.

• Two cars smash into each other and bounce off.

• A bowling ball striking a pin

• A bug smashes into a windshield.

Pick all of the scenarios that are explosions.

• A cannon fires a cannon ball.

• A spoon is shoved into a jar of peanut butter.

• A linebacker tackles a member of the opposite team.

• A swimmer jumps off a floating raft.

• A figure skater throws a heavy ball.

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

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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A 120 kg lineman moving at -2 m/s tackles an 80 kg fullback moving at +8 m/s. 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

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A 3,000 kg truck moving at +10 m/s hits a 1,000 kg parked car which moves off at +15 m/s. What is the velocity of the truck?

• 10 m/s
• 0 m/s
• 5 m/s
• 2 m/s

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