Chapter 9 Momentum
In this chapter you will focus on the topics of energy and momentum.
Learning Outcomes
After successful completion of this chapter, you will be able to:
- Define momentum
- Define impulse
- Evaluate the relationship between impulse and momentum
- Determine when momentum is conserved
- Analyze systems using a conservation of momentum approach
- Analyze elastic and inelastic collisions
- Analyze explosions using a conservation of momentum approach
- Draw diagrams useful for analysis of a system using momentum approach
- Analyze systems that independently conserve momentum and energy
