What is the momentum of a bowling ball and putty together after a 1-kg chunk of putty moving at 1 m/s collides with and sticks to a 5-kg bowling ball initially at rest?
1 Answer
Feb 18, 2018
This is known as a perfectly inelastic collision
Explanation:
The key to this is understanding that momentum will be conserved and that the final mass of the object will be
So, your initial momentum is
Then, after the collision, since that momentum is conserved,
So