Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Momentum and Collisions: Car Rear Ends Truck Elastic
This animation portrays the elastic collision between a 1000-kg car and a 3000-kg truck. The before and after collision velocities and momentum are shown in the data tables.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Momentum and Collisions: Truck Rear Ends Car Elastic
This animation below portrays the elastic collision between a 3000-kg truck and a 1000-kg car. The before and after collision velocities and momentum are shown in the data tables.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Momentum/collisions: Car/truck Head on Collision Elastic
This animation below portrays the elastic collision between a 1000-kg car and a 3000-kg truck. The before and after collision velocities and momentum are shown in the data tables.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Momentum/collisions:car/truck Head on Collision Inelastic
The animation below portrays the elastic collision between a 1000-kg car and a 3000-kg truck. The before- and after-collision velocities and momentum are shown in the data tables.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Linear Momentum and Collisions: Glossary
This is a glossary of the terms and definitions used in Chapter 8: Linear Momentum and Collisions from the AP Physics online text.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Inelastic Collisions & Conservation of Momentum
This lesson explains why conservation of momentum can be applied to inelastic collisions.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Rotational Motion and Angular Momentum: Conceptual Questions
This page provides 30 questions that cover the major concepts presented in Chapter 10: Rotational Motion and Angular Momentum from the AP Physics online text.
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Conservation of Momentum
View a simulation that shows the reaction to a cart on wheels carrying a swinging pendulum.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Energy and Momentum Conservation Level 1
Students will be told the total energy added to the two carts by the spring and then they must use this along with momentum conservation to find the speed of each car as they move away from each other.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Momentum Conservation Level 1
Students must determine the unknown mass in a problem involving momentum conservation. Both objects begin at rest and are propelled apart by a tap activated spring.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Momentum Conservation Level 2
Students must determine the unknown mass in a problem involving momentum conservation. One object begins at rest and the two objects stick together during the collision.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Momentum Conservation Level 3
Students must predict the speed in a problem involving momentum conservation. One object overtakes the other and the two objects stick together during the collision.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Momentum Conservation Level 4
Students must predict the speed in a problem involving momentum conservation. The two objects have a head-on collision and stick together during the collision.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: 2 D Momentum Conservation With Energy
Students must predict the KE added to the system when a Kuiper Belt Object is hit with an explosive charge. Students must first look at the momentum of each piece after the explosion to determine the original speed of the Kuiper Belt...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: 2 D Momentum Conservation
Students must predict the original speed of a Kuiper Belt Object by hitting it with an explosive charge and looking at the momentum of each piece after the explosion.
Physics4kids
Physics4 kids.com: Momentum Basics
This site defines momentum and distinguishes different types of momentum. Several examples including diagrams are used to explain these concepts. Conservation of momentum is briefly addressed. An online quiz is also available to check...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Collisions of Point Masses in Two Dimensions
By the end of this section, you will be able to discuss two-dimensional collisions as an extension of one-dimensional analysis, define point masses, derive an expression for conservation of momentum along the x-axis and y-axis, describe...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Conservation of Angular Momentum Review
Review how angular momentum is conserved if there is no external torque applied to a system. Specific scenarios are highlighted: system changing it rotational inertia, orbiting bodies, and rotational collisions.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Angular Momentum and Conservation
Students explore angular momentum and conservation. Some topics examined in the activities are angular momentum, torque, and conservation. The resource consists of video clips, lecture notes, practice problems, and exam questions....
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Momentum and Its Conservation Table of Contents
Students examine the impulse-momentum change theorem, the law of momentum conservation, and real world applications. The tutorial consists of lessons and problems to check for understanding.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Momentum and Its Conservation: Momentum
Through examples and interactive practice problems, students explore the momentum equation.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Linear Momentum Review
Overview of key terms and equations for linear momentum, including a derivation of Newton's second law from the conservation of linear momentum.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Conservation of Angular Momentum
Students learn the concept of angular momentum of objects in two dimensions and how rotational motion is determined.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Collisions of Point Masses in Two Dimensions
From a chapter on Linear Momentum and Collisions in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter discusses collisions in two dimensions, what point masses are, how to calculate the conservation of momentum, what happens when two...