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  • 13-09-2015
  • Physics
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Which has more momentum, a speeding baseball or an ocean liner at rest in a harbor?

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AL2006
AL2006 AL2006
  • 14-09-2015
Momentum is (mass) times (speed), so nothing that is at rest has any momentum. If the battleship is at rest, then a mosquito in flight, a leaf falling from a tree, and your speedy baseball each have more momentum than the ship has.
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