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A bowling ball of mass 8 kg hits a wall going 5 m/s and rebounds at a speed of 4 m/s. What was the impulse applied to the bowling ball?

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The answer would be 72 kg'm/s becuase the wall is pushing off 9 becuase it took 5 and bounced back off 4 so

9 times 8= 72 kg m/s

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