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    A large truck weighing 1000 kg moving at 0.02 m/s would have the same momentum as a 1 kg roller skate moving at 20 m/s. The document shows that while the truck has much greater mass than the skate, the skate can achieve an equal momentum if its velocity is high enough, since momentum is defined as the product of mass and velocity.

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    A large truck weighing 1000 kg moving at 0.02 m/s would have the same momentum as a 1 kg roller skate moving at 20 m/s. The document shows that while the truck has much greater mass than the skate, the skate can achieve an equal momentum if its velocity is high enough, since momentum is defined as the product of mass and velocity.

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    Momentum Example

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    A large truck weighing 1000 kg moving at 0.02 m/s would have the same momentum as a 1 kg roller skate moving at 20 m/s. The document shows that while the truck has much greater mass than the skate, the skate can achieve an equal momentum if its velocity is high enough, since momentum is defined as the product of mass and velocity.

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    State a possible case that a large truck would have the same momentum of a

    roller skate. Explain mathematically


    Since momentum is the product of mass and velocity then a small velocity for the
    large truck and a massive velocity of the roller skate should do the trick. Perhaps
    we say that the large truck moves at 0.02 m/s and it weighs about 1000 kilograms
    then its momentum is about 20 kg m/s. If the roller skate is about 1 kg then it
    should move at 20m/s for it to have a momentum of 20 kg m/s.

    pt= mv

    pr= mv

    = (1000kg)(0.02m/s)

    = (1 kg)(20 m/s)

    = 20 kg m/s

    = 20 kg m/s

    EQUAL MOMENTUM

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