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Momentum and Impulse

Impulse

Impulse Examples

Happy and Sad Balls

Colliding Carts

Conservation of momentum

Momentum

Conservation of momentum

Applied to the center-of-mass

Collisions

An explosion

Types of collisions

Collisions in 1-D

Center of mass

Center of mass

Center of gravity

Three balls

Question

Motion of the center-of-mass

Questions

Question 1

Question 2

2-D Collisions

Collisions in 2-D

Sample problem