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The document is a worksheet focused on the Impulse-Momentum theorem, posing questions about scenarios involving momentum and impulse. It includes questions about the effects of throwing a ball while on roller skates, comparing changes in momentum between a clay ball and a superball, and analyzing collisions between vehicles. Additionally, it discusses safety features in automobiles and techniques used by train engineers in relation to impulse and momentum.

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Qualitative Impulse-Momentum: Impulsive Force Model Worksheet 1

The document is a worksheet focused on the Impulse-Momentum theorem, posing questions about scenarios involving momentum and impulse. It includes questions about the effects of throwing a ball while on roller skates, comparing changes in momentum between a clay ball and a superball, and analyzing collisions between vehicles. Additionally, it discusses safety features in automobiles and techniques used by train engineers in relation to impulse and momentum.

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Qualitative Impulse-Momentum
The Impulse-Momentum theorem: FnetDt = D(mv)

1. If you throw a ball horizontally while standing on roller skates, you roll backwards. Will you roll
backwards if you go through the motions of throwing the ball, but hold on to it instead? Explain
your reasoning.

2. Which has the greater change in momentum, a 50 gram clay ball that strikes a wall at 1 m/s and
sticks or a 50 gram superball that strikes a wall at 1 m/s and bounces away from the wall at 0.8 m/s?
Explain your reasoning.

3. A Hummer and a VW Beetle traveling at equal speeds have a head-on collision.


a. Which vehicle will experience the greater force of impact? Justify your answer.

b. Which vehicle will experience the greater change in momentum? Justify your answer.

c. Which vehicle will experience the greater acceleration? Justify your answer.

©Modeling Instruction - AMTA 2013 1 U9 Momentum - ws 1 v3.1


4. Discuss the following in terms of impulse and momentum:

a. Why are padded dashboards safer than hard dashboards in automobiles?

b. Why are nylon ropes, which stretch considerably under stress, favored by mountain climbers?

c. When starting a heavy train, why will train engineers sometimes back up, stop, and then
proceed forward? (This technique is called "bunching slack.")

©Modeling Instruction - AMTA 2013 2 U9 Momentum - ws 1 v3.1

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