Question

A football player is running with a velocity or 10 m/s. At that velocity, his momentum is 2500 kg*m/s. What is the football players mass?

Answer 1

The mass of the football player is 250 kg.

Explanation:

Momentum is defined as the product of mass and velocity. So here the velocity (v) is given as 10 m/s and the momentum is given as 2500 kg m /s. So we can determine the mass (m) of the player by substituting the known terms in the formula of determining momentum as shown below.

             $\text {Momentum}(p)=m \times v$

As we know the value of momentum and velocity, the mass can be found as,

             $m=\frac{p}{v}=\frac{2500}{10}=250 \mathrm{kg}$

Thus, the mass of the football player is found to be 250 kg.