Impulse and Momentum

Have you ever wondered how does a car speeding down the road is slowed down slightly when the brakes are just gently tapped?

Or how does an airbag protect the driver during a motor vehicle accident?  Or whether or not a car weigh the same after an accident as it

did before the accident?

Well, as you traverse on wards you will realise that these are all aspects of Impulse and Momentum. Engineers who work at car

manufacturing companies have to bear several factors in mind when making their products as these motor vehicles will have to be built

conforming to the laws of Impulse and Momentum.

In this lesson you will examine the following:

• Impulse and Momentum
• Formulas for Impulse and  Momentum
• Types of Collisions
• Principle of the Conservation of Momentum
• Impulse Momentum Theory
• Applications of Impulse and Momentum in real life

Click on the web link below to watch a short video that stands as an introduction to the unit.