Momentum

This picture is an example of ____________

• Elastic Collision

• Inelastic collision

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Collisions can be ____________or ___________.

• fast or slow

• far or near

• elastic or inelastic

• none of the above

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Jorge noticed a collision outside the coffee shop where two cars collided and stuck together.  What type of collision did he observe?

• Elastic

• Inelastic

• Completely inelastic

• none

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Which of the following has the greatest momentum?

• a scurrying cockroach

• a parked semi-truck

• more information is needed

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Which would have more momentum between a train moving at 0 kph and a bug flying at 0.5 kph?

• Bug

• Train

• They are the same

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Sally runs and jumps off of a diving board and lands on a tube (she stays in the tube).  The collision between Sally and the tube is

• Elastic

• Explosive

• Inelastic

• Completely absurd

T/F:  A big truck will always have more momentum than a small car.

• True

• False

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A 50 kg ball rolls east down the street at 5 m/s. Calculate the momentum of the ball. 

• 55 kg*m/s east

• 10 kg*m/s east

• 250 kg*m/s east

• 500 kg*m/s east

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The best definition of momentum shown below is

• Mass in Motion

• The size of an object

• The velocity of an object

• A comparison between two objects

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Two identical cars are driving down the highway. Car A is traveling at 80 km/hr , while Car B is traveling at 60km/hr. Which of the two cars would have a greater momentum?

• Car A

• Car B

• both have the same momentum

• cannot be determined

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