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Lucy is cruising through space in her new spaceship. As she coasts along, a tiny spacebug drifts into her path and bounces off the window. Consider several statements concerning this scenario. Evaluate
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Lucy is cruising through space in her new spaceship. As she coasts along, a tiny spacebug drifts into her path and bounces off the window.

Consider several statements concerning this scenario. Evaluate each statement according to the law of momentum conservation and match it to the appropriate category.

Lucy is cruising through space in her new spaceship. As she coasts along, a tiny spacebug-example-1
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TRUE: The total change in momentum for this interaction is zero.

FALSE: The change in the space bug's momentum is greater than the change in the spaceship's momentum.

UNDETERMINED: If the space bug had stuck to the spaceship instead of bouncing off, momentum would not have been conserved for this interaction.

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