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what is the momentum of a 100 kilogram boulder rolling south down a a hill at a velocity at 5 meters per second?

User Karisma
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momentum includes velocity•mass, and to be complete, it must say the direction so it would be 500 kg×m/s, south
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momentum = mass x velocity
= 100 x 5
= 500 kg m/s
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