A 6kg bowling ball is traveling at 10 m/s is brought to rest after colliding with a wallin a collision that lasts .1s.
What is the impulse experienced by the ball?
I calculated that it was -60kgm/s but that is incorrect. Help?
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A 6kg bowling ball is traveling at 10 m/s is brought to rest after colliding with a wallin a collision that lasts .1s.
What is the impulse experienced by the ball?
I calculated that it was -60kgm/s but that is incorrect. Help?
Hmmmm... it certainly seems like a pretty straightforward question.
Impulse = change in momentum = 0 - 6*10 = -60 kg*m/s.
Your answer certainly looks correct to me.
Do you know what the supposedly "correct" answer is? It could be something stupid like "60 kgm/s backwards", which is exactly the same thing as what you got, of course.
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