A toy dart gun generates a dart with 0.180 kg.m/s momentum and a velocity of 4.1 m/s. What is the mass of the dart in grams rounded to 2 significant figures?
1 Answer
Jan 27, 2017
The mass of the toy dart is
Explanation:
Momentum is mass in motion. Momentum depends on the mass of the object in motion and its velocity. Because velocity is a vector quantity, momentum is a vector quantity, even though a direction was not included in this question.
The equation for momentum is
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Solution
Rearrange the equation for momentum to isolate mass. Substitute the known values into the equation.