Another word you might hear in everyday life which has a specific meaning in physics is "momentum".
An object's momentum is its mass multiplied by its velocity. Momentum is a vector so it has a magnitude and a direction, and the direction is the same as the velocity.
We'll also learn about impulse - a change in momentum caused by a force applied for a period of time.
After we understand momentum, we can learn about the law of conservation of momentum and how it applies to collisions in the next lesson.
Everything that we learn here also applies to angular momentum which we'll cover in another lesson.
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Momentum
- Linear momentum
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- Linear momentum
Another word you might hear in everyday life which has a specific meaning in physics is "momentum".
An object's momentum is its mass multiplied by its velocity. Momentum is a vector so it has a magnitude and a direction, and the direction is the same as the velocity.
We'll also learn about impulse - a change in momentum caused by a force applied for a period of time.
After we understand momentum, we can learn about the law of conservation of momentum and how it applies to collisions in the next lesson.
Everything that we learn here also applies to angular momentum which we'll cover in another lesson.
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