Question

During a safety crash, a car impacts a solid concrete barrier and and comes to rest in 0.10s. In a second test, an identical car traveling at the same initial speed impacts a line of water barrels and comes to rest in 2.3s. During which test was the change in the momentum of the car the greatest?
a. It is the same for both cars.
b. The car that hits the concrete barrier.
c. The car that hits the water barrels

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is C

Explanation:

Change is momentum can be described as the change in the product of mass and velocity of a body. Every moving object as a momentum and the higher the momentum of this object, the harder it is to stop. Impulse (a force), which is sometimes used to describe change in momentum can be described as the product as force multiplied by time.

From the description above, it can be deduced that an increase in impulse can lead to a greater change in momentum. And an increase in impulse can be brought about by an increase in the time it takes a body to be brought to rest after collision. And since the car that hit the water barrels was brought to rest at a longer time, it has a greater change in momentum