A satellite was in two separate crashes. In both crashes, the satellite had the same mass. Engineers want to know about the spee
d and direction of the satellite after the crashes. Why would the crash affect the motion of the satellite, and which crash caused a greater change in motion for the satellite? Read the question and use the picture to help you with this one
use all 3 of the sentence starters
-The speed and direction of the satellite was
-The crash affected the motion of the satellite because . . .
-The _____ crash caused . . .
Crashing into the asteroid would cause the satellite to slow down, stop, or reverse direction, because it is a force in the opposite direction to the satellite's motion. Whichever crash was a stronger force would cause it to change motion more. It takes a stronger force to change the velocity of a more massive object.
