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a 60g tennis ball travelling at 30m/s hi a wall and bounce back at 20m/s.calculate (a)momentum of the ball before impact (b)momentum of the ball after impact​

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Step-by-step explanation:

the formula for momentum is denoted by p=mv where p is momentum, m is mass and v is velocity. thus, the velocity before impact would be 0.060 x 30 = 1.8 kg/ms

the second one would just be 0.060 x 20 0.72kg/ms

I'm not 100 percent sure this is correct but yeah

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