Momentum Review

Which of the following has the least amount of momentum?

• An ant walking along the ground
• An ant at rest
• An elephant walking
• An elephant running

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Momentum depends on an object's mass and its ____________.

• Inertia
• Velocity
• Potential energy
• Height

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Momentum is often referred to as "__________ in motion."

• Inertia
• Matter
• Volume
• Force

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Both mass and velocity are _______________ proportional to momentum.

• Directly
• Inversely

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To maximize the change in momentum of an object, a _____ force should be applied over a _____ time.

• Large; long
• Large; small
• Small; long
• Small; short

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The impulse acting on an object is always equal to its change in _____.

• Momentum
• Energy
• Position
• Velocity

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In both elastic and inelastic collisions, momentum ____________________.

• is conserved
• is lost
• is gained
• is changed into inertia

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The total momentum before a collision is _________ the total momentum after a collision.

• equal to 
• less than 
• more than
• It depends on the type of collision

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As a general rule of thumb, if a colliding objects are not deformed and are separate after the collision, it is an _____ collision.

• Elastic
• Inelastic

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If two objects have the same mass, then the faster moving object has ____________ momentum.

• more 
• less
• the same

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