Exam 9: Momentum

A 1200-kg cannon suddenly fires a $\text { 100-kg }$ cannonball at $35 \mathrm {~m} / \mathrm { s }$ What is the recoil speed of the cannon? Assume that frictional forces are negligible and the cannon is fired horizontally.

Two friends are standing on opposite ends of a canoe that is initially at rest with respect to a frictionless lake. The person in the front throws a very massive ball toward the back, and the person in the back catches it. After the ball is caught, the canoe is

A 5.0-m radius playground merry-go-round with a moment of inertia of 2000 kg ∙ m² is rotating freely with an angular speed of 1.0 rad/s. Two people, each of mass 60 kg, are standing right outside the edge of the merry-go-round and suddenly step onto the edge with negligible speed relative to the ground. What is the angular speed of the merry-go-round right after the two people have stepped on?

A solid wood door, 90.0 cm wide by 2.00 m tall has a mass of 35.0 kg. It is open and at rest. A small 500-g ball is thrown perpendicular to the door with a speed of 20.0 m/s and hits the door 60.0 cm from the hinged side. The ball rebounds with a speed of 16.0 m/s along the same line. What is the angular speed of the door just after the collision with the ball?

A golf ball of mass 0.050 kg is at rest on the tee. Just after being struck, it has a velocity of 102 m/s. If the club and ball were in contact for $0.81 \mathrm {~ms}$ what is the average force exerted on the ball by the club?

A puck moves on a horizontal air table. It is attached to a string that passes through a hole in the center of the table. As the puck rotates about the hole, the string is pulled downward very slowly and shortens the radius of rotation, so the puck gradually spirals in towards the center. By what factor will the puck's angular speed have changed when the string's length has decreased to one-half of its original length?

A 2200-kg auto moving northward at 12.0 m/s runs into a 3800-kg truck which is also moving northward, but at 5.00 m/s. If the vehicles lock bumpers, how fast are they moving just after the collision?

A merry-go-round spins freely when Diego moves quickly to the center along a radius of the merry-go-round. As he does this, it is true to say that

A batter applies an average force of 8000 N to a baseball for 1.1 ms. What is the magnitude of the impulse delivered to the baseball by the bat?

A firecracker breaks up into two pieces, one of which has a mass of 200 g and flies off along the +x-axis with a speed of 82.0 m/s. The second piece has a mass of 300 g and flies off along the +y-axis with a speed of 45.0 m/s. What is the total momentum of the two pieces?

Consider two less-than-desirable options. In the first you are driving 30 mph and crash head-on into an identical car also going 30 mph. In the second option you are driving 30 mph and crash head-on into a stationary brick wall. In neither case does your car bounce back from the thing it hits, and the collision time is the same in both cases. Which of these two situations would result in the greater impact force on your car?

Two dogs, Rover and Fido, run on a level frictionless surface. Rover runs eastward with a momentum of 24 kg . m/s, and Fido runs northward with momentum 10 kg . m/s. They make a sudden perfectly inelastic collision. What is the magnitude of their combined momentum after the collision?

A 2.0-kg mass moving at 5.0 m/s suddenly collides head-on with a 3.0-kg mass at rest. If the collision is perfectly inelastic, what is the speed of the masses just after the collision?

A 1200-kg ore cart is rolling at 10.8 m/s across a flat friction-free surface. A crane suddenly drops $858 \mathrm {~kg}$ of ore vertically into the cart. How fast does the cart move just after being loaded with the ore?

A dinner plate falls vertically to the floor and breaks up into three pieces, which slide horizontally along the floor. Immediately after the impact, a 320-g piece moves along the +x-axis with a speed of 2.00 m/s and a 355-g piece moves along the +y-axis with a speed of 1.50 m/s. The third piece has a mass of 100 g. In what direction relative to the +x-axis does the third piece move?

A small car meshes with a large truck in a head-on collision. Which of the following statements concerning the magnitude of the momentum change during the collision is correct? (There could be more than one correct choice.)

An 80-kg man is skating northward and happens to suddenly collide with a 20-kg boy who is ice skating toward the east. Immediately after the collision, the man and boy are seen to be moving together at 2.5 m/s in a direction 60° north of east. How fast was the boy moving just before the collision?

A 475-gram ball is traveling horizontally at 12.0 m/s to the left when it is suddenly struck horizontally by a bat, causing it to reverse direction and initially travel at 8.50 m/s to the right. If the bat produced an average force of 1275 N on the ball, for how long (in milliseconds) was it in contact with the ball?

What is the magnitude of the momentum of a 0.140 kg baseball traveling at 45.0 m/s?

In a certain cyclotron, a proton of mass 1.67 × 10^-27 kg moves in a circle of diameter 1.6 m with an angular speed of 2.0 × 10⁶ rad/s. What is the angular momentum of the proton?