Does mass affect momentum

Answer 1

Certainly it does. My question is why wouldn't mass affect momentum? Let us consider a Baseball versus a Bowling ball, rolling towards each other on a level floor. Now knowing that mass affects momentum, you can predict that when the bowling ball and the baseball collide, that the baseballs trajectory will be changed far greater than the trajectory of the bowling ball.

In other words, the bowling ball is hardly affected by the collision, because it is so much more massive than the baseball, thus carrying more momentum and having very little change in its direction after the collision, as opposed to the baseball being sent in a completely opposite direction of which it was rolling before the collision.

Answer 2

Well, let's see . . .

Here's a thought experiment that can help answer that question:

A tour bus is driving through a Golf course at 90 mph, really tearing up the sod. Just as it
passes the 5th tee heading toward the fairway, Sammy unleashes a fierce drive with his
#3 wood that coincidentally launches the golf ball at 90 mph parallel and exactly in step
with the bus, so that when the passengers on the starboard side of the bus look out their
window, they're tickled to see this golf ball seem to just hang there in the air outside the
window.

Obviously, the velocity of the bus and the velocity of the golf ball are identical for a few seconds ...
they both have the same speed, in the same direction.

Strangely, however, a physicist who happens to be riding on the bus happens to know
from his vast experience that the mass of the bus is notidentical to the mass of the golf
ball. Applying this knowledge, he points out to the other passengers the curious fact
that the respective masses had absolutely nothing to do with the respective velocities.
In fact, in order to measure the velocity of an object, or even describe it to other people,
you don't even have to know anything about the object's mass.

Answer 3

No, a larger mass will not increase velocity, assuming the same amount of force is applied to a smaller object. If the larger object is accelerated to the same speed as the smaller object, the larger object will have a larger momentum. However, if a faster moving large object were to bang from behind another object, the object banged will end up with a higher speed.

Answer 4

Mass by itself has no effect on velocity. In terminal velocity (velocity of an object falling through a fluid) the mass tovolume ratio (density) can change the final velocity at any given medium density, but in acceleration in a vacuum there is no impact from mass on velocity.

Answer 5

the mass does affexct the velocity of acceleration

Answer 6

No. Velocity is independent of mass.

Answer 7

nope