Momentum and Impulse
Students will explore the principle of conservation of momentum and its application in collisions and explosions, defining impulse.
Key Questions
- Explain how the concept of impulse explains the design of vehicle safety features like crumple zones.
- Differentiate between elastic and inelastic collisions based on kinetic energy conservation.
- Predict the final velocities of objects after a collision using the conservation of momentum.
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