Which of the following has the largest momentum?

a pickup truck traveling down the highway

a dog chasing a truck down the street

the school building you are sitting in

a truck parked in a parking lot

A roller coaster climbs up a hill at 4 m/s and then zips down the hill at 30 m/s. The momentum of the roller coaster

is greater coming down the hill

remains the same throughout the ride

A moving freight car runs into an identical car at rest on the track. If the two freight cars join together, their velocity will be

half as much as the freight car before the collision

twice as much as the freight car before the collision

the same as the freight car before the collision

A cannon fires a cannonball. The speed of the cannonball will be the same as the speed of the recoiling cannon

if the mass of the cannonball equals the mass of the cannon

because both velocity and momentum are conserved

Momentum and Conservation Of Momentum Quiz

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