Momentum & Collisions

Learning Targets

• Identify and describe momentum, impulse and the impulse-momentum theorem.

• Recognize that a net external force will change an object's momentum.

• Interpret and provide examples for the law of conservation of momentum.

• Describe the differences between elastic, inelastic and perfectly inelastic collisions.

• Solve problems involving mass, velocity, momentum, force and time.

• Recognize that momentum is always conserved during a collision but mechanical energy may not be conserved.

• Solve problems involving collisions and conservation of momentum.

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