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dentical forces act for the same length of time on two different objects. The magnitude of the change in momentum of the lighter object is

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the change in momentum on each object will be proportional to the force and the mass. as the force is constant, it’ll only be proportional to the mass. as the lighter objects mass is less it will have a greater increase in momentum than the heavier one
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