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In the classroom demonstration where a volunteer strikes an anvil resting on the physics professor's chest will he lies reclined, the anvil shields the daring physics professor from most of the sledgehammer's:

a) momentum
b) kinetic energy
c)...both
d)...actually neither

PLEASE EXPLAIN!

User Anton Kesy
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Answer: Kinetic energy

The sledge hammer is a sledge. Meaning that the energy will be kinetic.
User Curt Nichols
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Kinetic energy because the sledge hammer is moving so it has kinetic energy.
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