A 40kg girl and a 50kg boy are facing each other on a friction-free rollerskates. The girl pushes the boy, who moves away at a s
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Explanation:
The Law of Momentum Conservation, just like the Law of Thermodynamics about energy, says that momentum is neither created nor destroyed but is conserved, meaning it has to go somewhere. If the girl pushes the boy and they are both on friction free skates, then the girl will also react to the push. Momentum Conservation says
In words this says that the mass times the velocity of the girl plus the mass times the velocity of the boy before the push has to equal the mass times velocity of the girl plus the mass times velocity of the boy after the push. Mathematically,
The left side of this is equal to 0. On the right, I made the velocity of the boy negative. We could have made it positive and it wouldn't have mattered. The sign will only be important to the result because if the sign of the girl's velocity is the same as the boy's, she is moving in the same direction as he is; if it's different, she is moving in the opposite direction.
0 = 40.0v - 150.0 and
-40.0v = -150.0 so
v = 3.75 This means that when she pushes the boy one way, mometum is conserved and she moves in the opposite direction and at a greater velocity (because her mass is less). Physics is a wonderful thing, isn't it!?
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