Mission MC10: Momentum and Proportional Reasoning

Mission MC10 focuses on the use of a skill known as proportional reasoning to predict the post-collision speed of an object involved in a hit-stick-style collision. The mission consists of 28 questions organized into 7 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 use the conservation of momentum principle to predict the effect of an increase in mass upon the final velocity of an object.

 

Launch Mission MC10

 

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
 

• What is momentum?
• How can the momentum of a single object be calculated?
• How can one predict the post-collision speed of a system if the exact mass values are not known (but the mass ratios are known)?

 

Video Tutorial:

Proportional Reasoning and Collision Analysis

 

 

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: