• Question: can simply explain momentum?

    Asked by 362gdna42 to David on 11 Nov 2014.
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      David Wilson answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      Momentum is a measure of how hard it is to change the way in which a thing is moving, i.e. to get it to speed up, slow down, or stop. That’s as simply as I can put it, I think! To get the momentum for any object, multiply its mass by its velocity.

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