Mission MC6: Explosion-Like Impulses

Mission MC6 focuses on the use of the law of momentum conservation to analyze explosions to predict the post-exploson velocity of an object. The mission consists of 32 questions organized into 8 Question Groups. You must answer one question from each Question Group to complete the mission. The learning outcomes for this mission are ...
 

Learning Outcomes

• The student should be able to analyze explosions using Newton's third law and momentum change and impulse principles, being able to predict the relative force, acceleration, impulse, and momentum changes of the interacting objects.
• The student should be able to use momentum conservation principles to predict the post-explosion velocity of an object.

 

Launch Mission MC6

 

Getting Help

If you are not familiar with this topic, then you should first learn about the topic using our written Tutorial or our Video Tutorial:
 

The Physics Classroom, Momentum and Its Conservation Unit, Lesson 2, Part a

The Physics Classroom, Momentum and Its Conservation Unit, Lesson 2, Part b
 

• When an explosive-like impulse occurs between two objects of unequal mass, how do the forces on the individual objects compare to each other?
• When an explosive-like impulse occurs between two objects of unequal mass, how do the impulses and momentum changes experienced by the individual objects compare to each other?
• What is an isolated system? Why is it important to the understanding of explosive-like impulses?

 

Video Tutorials:

Explosions and Momentum Conservation

 

 

Question-Specific Help

Each Question Group has its own Help page with information specific to the question. You can access the Help page from within the mission by tapping on the Help Me! icon (textbook). For your convenience, links to those pages are provided below: