Question

The momentum of a car traveling at 20m/s is 24,500 kgm/s. What is the car's mass?

Answer 1

Answer:

1225kg

Explanation:

Given parameters:

Velocity of the car  = 20m/s

Momentum = 24500kgm/s

Unknown:

Mass of the car  = ?

Solution:

To solve this problem, we must understand that the momentum of a body is the quantity of motion that it possess.

So;

  Momentum  = mass x velocity

 

    Mass of the car  = $\frac{Momentum }{velocity}$   = $\frac{24500}{20}$   = 1225kg