Monday, May 20, 2013

Momentum (Algodoo)


In this video, we can see that we have a boulder that is moving at a constant speed. This object has a value called momentum, and this object can only have this value when it is moving because of its equation. It equation is p=mv which means that momentum is equal to mass times its velocity, so when an object has 0 velocity, it has no momentum, but when this mass of 100 kilograms starts going about 18 meters per second, it suddenly has a momentum of 1800 kg*m/s. So we see that both the amount of mass and the velocity of an object affect its momentum.

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