Mission MC8: Hit and Stick Collision Analysis

Mission MC8 focuses on the use of momentum principles to analyze collisions in which objects collide and stick together. You will have to complete a before-after collision table, indicating the amount of momentum possessed by individual objects and by the system of objects. The mission consists of 24 questions organized into 6 Question Groups. You must answer one question from each Question Group to complete the mission. The learning outcome for this mission is ...
 

Learning Outcome

• The student should be able to utilize the principle of momentum conservation to solve collision problems for an unknown pre- or post-collision velocity.

 

Launch Mission MC8

 

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 d
 

• How can mass and speed (or velocity) information be used to determine the momentum of an individual object?
• How can the total momentum of a system of two objects be determined?
• Is the direction that an object is moving important to the determination of its momentum?
• How is the fact that two objects stick together (or entangle) important to an analysis of a collision?
• How can the post-collision speed of an object be determined from pre-collision mass and speed information?

 

Video Tutorial:

Collision Analysis and Problem-Solving

 

 

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: