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    Things with mass have weight on Earth but in space they have mass without weight. Objects have momentum, which is a combination of their mass and velocity. When a moving object collides with a stationary object, the momentum is transferred, causing the previously stationary object to move and the moving object to stop. A light, fast-moving object transferring momentum to a heavy object causes the heavy object to move slowly, while a heavy, slowly moving object transferring momentum to a light object causes the light object to move fast. Momentum equals mass times velocity.

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    Things with mass have weight on Earth but in space they have mass without weight. Objects have momentum, which is a combination of their mass and velocity. When a moving object collides with a stationary object, the momentum is transferred, causing the previously stationary object to move and the moving object to stop. A light, fast-moving object transferring momentum to a heavy object causes the heavy object to move slowly, while a heavy, slowly moving object transferring momentum to a light object causes the light object to move fast. Momentum equals mass times velocity.

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    IGCSE COLLINS - Video 1

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    Things with mass have weight on Earth but in space they have mass without weight. Objects have momentum, which is a combination of their mass and velocity. When a moving object collides with a stationary object, the momentum is transferred, causing the previously stationary object to move and the moving object to stop. A light, fast-moving object transferring momentum to a heavy object causes the heavy object to move slowly, while a heavy, slowly moving object transferring momentum to a light object causes the light object to move fast. Momentum equals mass times velocity.

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    IGCSE PHYSICS

    Video 1 Mass + weight + momentum


    Things with little mass have little weight, things with a large mass have a greater weight. On earth a spaceship has mass and is extremely heavy but when in space, in zero gravity it cannot be said to have weight but it still has mass. If you could push it gently it would move. So objects have something which is a combination of mass and velocity, and we call that 'momentum'. Here is a moving weight and it is going to hit a still weight. The still weight is now moving and the moving weight has come to rest and is still. The momentum was transferred from one to the other. So what happens if a light object hits a heavy object? Watch. The small weight is going very fast, but the large object only moves slowly on impact. And now a heavy object hitting a light object. The heavy object is moving slowly, but when they collided the light object moved away fast. This illustrates that momentum equals mass times velocity.

    Collins Education 2006

    Video 1 - Mass + weight + momentum

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