Mission MC2: Impulse and Momentum Change

Mission MC2 pertains to the concept of an impulse and the relationship between the impulse and the momentum change. The mission consists of 38 questions organized into 10 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 define impulse, indicate its units and relate its significance to a collision.
• The student should be able to calculate the impulse and relate its value to the momentum change in a collision.

 

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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 1, Part b
 

• What is impulse?
• What would an impulse cause an object to do?
• How can the impulse delivered to an object be calculated?
• How is impulse related to momentum and momentum change?
• How can one use mass, pre- and post-collision velocity, force and/or time values to determine the impulse delivered to an object?
• How can one use mass, force, time and/or pre- and post-collision velocity values to determine the momentum change of an object?
• How is the post-collision momentum of an object related to the object's mass, pre-collision velocity, impact force and collision time?

 

Video Tutorial:

Impulse and Momentum Change

 

 

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: