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Which has a greater force: a semi-truck at rest or a moving bicycle?

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A moving bicycle bc it’s moving
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Although the semi truck certainly has a larger mass, it is not in motion and therefore does not have any momentum. The bicycle however has both mass and velocity and therefore has the larger momentum of the pair.

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