Question

A red car has a head-on collision with an approaching blue car with the same magnitude of momentum. A green car driving with the same momentum as the other cars collides with an enormously massive wall. Which of the three cars will experience the greatest impulse

Answer 1

Answer:

The head on Collison because you have both cars going (for the sake of it 30mph) and they both collide the energy from that is 60mph because the speed is combined with the two cars.

Answer 2

All three cars experience the same impulse.

Impulse is equal to change in momentum.

Each car starts with the same amount of momentum and ends up with zero, so the magnitudes of all three changes are equal.