A large truck is moving at 22.0 m/s. If its momentum is 125,000 kg • , what is the truck's mass?
2 answers:
Answer:
5682 kg
Explanation:
The momentum of a moving object is given by:
where m is the mass of the object while v is its velocity.
In this problem, we know the velocity of the truck (v=22.0 m/s) and its momentum (p=125,000 kg m/s), therefore we can rearrange the previous formula to calculate the mass of the truck:
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