Posts Tagged ‘velocity’

How are you so sure that Conservation of Momentum is always true?

We know that the most basis physical quantities are length, mass and time.
From here, we’ve defined velocity, acceleration, momentum, force, energy, power, intensity, and so on.
Momentum of a substance is defined as product of mass and velocity of the substance.
But I didn’t see any relationship to say that momentum is always conserved. It’s just a rule, but how this rule come from?

For conservation of energy, I know, is just an ability to do work. So, the idea is energy cannot be created or destroy. Here’s how conservation of energy comes from. But what about conservation of momentum?

Thank you.

About the Conservation of Kinetic Energy in Relation to Momentum?

If two objects collide in an inelastic fashion where object A is 1kg moving 5km/s and object B is 2kg moving -4km/s the final velocity should be -1km/s but with this value the combined kinetic energies of object A and B doesn’t equal the kinetic energy of a 3kg object moving -1m/s. How can the reactants and product have different kinetic energies if their momentums are the same.