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Wong, Kin Son; Wong, Hang – Physics Teacher, 2022
The law of conservation of momentum is a fundamental law of nature. It states that the momentum of an isolated system is conserved. In high school or introductory-level physics courses, for simplicity, teachers and textbooks always use collisions in one dimension as the examples to introduce the concept of conservation of momentum. To solve simple…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Kinetics, Motion, Scientific Concepts