Question

A football player whose mass is 49.9 kg is running at 5.78 m/s. The momentum of the player is ___ kg•m/s

Answer 1

Momentum is mass x velocity so...

Here we have the mass = 49.9kg

and the velocity = 5.78 m/s

So...

p = (49.9)(5.78)

p = 288.422 --> roughly 288.4 kgm/s