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Physics -- Momentum Word Problems
                  (Mom = Mass (x) Velocity)

(Note:  The problems may look familiar, but the numbers are different!)



 

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Mom = 3 kg-m/sec     (or)     Mom=3kg-m/sec   
 --- in other words, your answers must either have a space after the missing variable, a space after the
equals mark, and a space after the number OR no spaces!)
 

  

 1. 

A 5,116 kilogram car is moving at a speed of 86 km/hr.  What is its MOMENTUM?
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A 56,735 kg. train is moving at a speed of 51 km/hr.  What is its MOMENTUM?
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 3. 

A steel ball whose mass is 44.5 grams is moving at a speed of 46 m/sec. 
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 4. 

An object whose mass is 4,445 kg is fired from a cannon at 66 m/sec. 
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 5. 

This question has 3 parts:

a. A 2 kg red toy car begins at the right side of a long table and rolls across a table top to the middle at 1.5 cm/sec.  What is itís MOMENTUM?

b. From the left side of the table a 0.5 kg. blue toy car rolls towards the middle at 3 cm/sec.  What is itís MOMENTUM?

c. When these two toy cars collide, consider these questions:
     1. Which one has MORE momentum, the red one or the blue one? 

     2. How MUCH MORE momentum does it have? 

     3. After the collision in which DIRECTION will the cars roll?  Why?

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 6. 

A 6 kg cart has a momentum of 63 kg-cm/min. What is its VELOCITY?
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 7. 

A steel ball is rolling down a ramp at 42 cm/sec with a momentum of 1,604 g-cm/sec.
What is its
MASS?
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 8

An object who mass is 4 kg. is fired from a cannon, giving it a forward
momentum of 50 kg-km/sec. What is its
VELOCITY?
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 9. 

A car is traveling down the road with a momentum of 111,004 kg-km/hr at a
velocity of 64 km/hr. What is its
MASS?
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 10. 

A space rock weighing 2 kg. is traveling towards our planet with a
momentum of 11,569 kg-km/hr. What is its
VELOCITY?
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