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College Prep Physics Worksheet - Conservation of Momentum

This worksheet is designed to assess your understanding of the concept of conservation of momentum.

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A child in a boat throws a 5.40-kg package out horizontally with a speed of 10.0 m/s. Calculate the velocity of the boat immediately after, assuming it was initially at rest. The mass of the child is 26.0 kg and that of the boat is 55.0 kg.???
A halfback on an apparent breakaway for a touchdown is tackled from behind. If the halfback has a mass of 95 kg and was moving at 4.1 m/s when he was tackled by an 85-kg cornerback running at 5.5 m/s in the same direction, what was their mutual speed immediately after the touchdown-saving tackle????
A 12,500-kg railroad car travels alone on a level frictionless track with a constant speed of 18.0 m/s. A 5750-kg additional load is dropped onto the car. What then will be the car's speed????
A 9500-kg boxcar traveling at 16 m/s strikes a second car. The two stick together and move off with a speed of 6.0 m/s. What is the mass of the second car????
A gun is fired vertically into a 1.40-kg block of wood at rest directly above it. If the bullet has a mass of 21.0 g and a speed of 210 m/s, how high will the block rise into the air after the bullet becomes embedded in it????
An atomic nucleus at rest decays radioactively into an alpha particle and a smaller nucleus. What will be the speed of this recoiling nucleus if the speed of the alpha particle is 3.8 x 10^5 m/s? Assume the recoiling nucleus has a mass 57 times greater than that of the alpha particle.???
A 13-g bullet traveling 230 m/s penetrates a 2.0-kg block of wood and emerges going 170 m/s. If the block is stationary on a frictionless surface when hit, how fast does it move after the bullet emerges????


Algebra I and Geometry Teacher
Patrick Henry High School
Ashland, VA

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