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What has more momentum a heavy truck or a moving skateboard?
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What has more momentum a heavy truck or a moving skateboard?

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It depends on how fast each of them is moving, which you haven't told us. Whichever one has a larger product of (mass x speed) has more momentum.

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The skateboard because he heavy truck is at rest and therefore it won't have momentum.
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