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What is the change in momentum of the bullet?
The change in momentum of the bullet is ∆p = pf = pi = (0.03 kg)*(600 m/s) = 18 kgm/s. The momentum changes in ∆t = 2*10-3 s.
Does a bullet have more momentum than a truck?
Momentum is determined by both speed and mass. A semi truck at highway speed has roughly the same momentum as a baby carriage going a million miles an hour. In ideal world the total momentum of the bullet and the rifle is zero.
Does a bullet have a high momentum?
Momentum is what makes gun-fired bullets so dangerous. Multiply these two numbers together and you get a bullet momentum of about 3.2 kgm/s. In contrast, modern cars have a mass of about 1500 kg. Traveling at a highway speed of 25 m/s (55 mph), a car has a momentum of about 38,000 kgm/s.
What is the momentum before and after collision?
The total system momentum is the same before and after the collision. Thus, momentum is conserved and there is no net external impulse on the system.
What is the total momentum after the collision?
When two objects collide, their total momentum does not change. The total momentum, before and after the collision, equals the sum of the objects’ individual momenta. For each object, this momentum is the product of its mass and its velocity, measured in kilogram meters per second.
What is the momentum of the gun and bullet before firing?
zero
The total momentum of the bullet and the gun before the firing is zero because both are at rest.
Does a bullet have more momentum than a moving ship?
The huge ship moves at less than 50 mph, the bullet would have to be propelled at millions of times that velocity to have the same momentum as the ship.
Which has more momentum a huge truck that is not moving or a bicycle that is moving?
Although the semi truck certainly has a larger mass, it is not in motion and therefore does not have any momentum. The bicycle however has both mass and velocity and therefore has the larger momentum of the pair.
Does the bullet have more momentum than the gun?
The gun and the bullet are both at rest, so the momentum (mv) of the gun and the bullet are both zero. So, the total momentum of the system before the bullet is fired is zero.
Which has more momentum after the gun fires the bullet the bullet or the gun?
When a bullet is fired from a gun, total momentum before is zero since nothing is moving. After firing the bullet there is a momentum in the forward direction. In order for the entire system of the gun and the ammunition to have equal momentum, the gun must gain momentum in the opposite direction from the bullet.