Match each momentum term
Exercise and reference answers
- Matching pairs
- Left
- Linear momentum
- Right
- Mass multiplied by velocity
- Left
- Isolated system
- Right
- Net external force is zero
- Left
- Second law
- Right
- Force is momentum change per time
- Left
- Third law
- Right
- Forces come equal and opposite
- Left
- Jet propulsion
- Right
- Push mass out, move the other way
- Instructions
- Tap a term on the left, then tap its meaning on the right.
Explanation
_Source: OpenStax College Physics for AP(R) Courses 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 8 'Linear Momentum and Collisions', sections 8.1-8.7_