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A 20,000 kg truck traveling at 25 m/s has a head-on inelastic collision with a 1500 kg car traveling at -30 m/s. calculate the initial momentum of the truck.
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A 20,000 kg truck traveling at 25 m/s has a head-on inelastic collision with a 1500 kg car traveling at -30 m/s. calculate the initial momentum of the truck.

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moment is mass times speed
INITIAL moment before collision was 20 000 times 25 = 500 000
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