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You may see acceleration mentioned in a momentum problem; but if it's there, it's only purposeis to help you find the object's velocity.All you need to know in order to find momentum is the object's mass and velocity.
To find the momentum of an object you must know the mass of the object and the velocity at which it travels. Example: A 50kg man runs at 10m/s. What is his momentum? Momentum = Mass x Velocity 50 x 10 = 500 kgm/s
The mass of the object.
Momentum, energy, frequency, and wave number (but not wave vector.)
It depends on what else you know. If you know the mass and can measure the acceleration, you can use that to calculate force, but there are other ways to calculate force.
An object's momentum depends on its mass, its speed, and the direction it's moving. If you know these numbers, you can calculate the momentum on your own. You don't need no scientist.
You may see acceleration mentioned in a momentum problem; but if it's there, it's only purposeis to help you find the object's velocity.All you need to know in order to find momentum is the object's mass and velocity.
To find the momentum of an object you must know the mass of the object and the velocity at which it travels. Example: A 50kg man runs at 10m/s. What is his momentum? Momentum = Mass x Velocity 50 x 10 = 500 kgm/s
The momentum of any object depends on its mass as well as its speed, so I would need to know the object's mass in order to answer the question.
The mass of the object.
A scale, a stopwatch and a ruler. Weigh the object of which you want to know the momentum, and determine its speed using the stopwatch and ruler. The momentum can then be calculated as the product of the weight and the speed.
Momentum, energy, frequency, and wave number (but not wave vector.)
It depends on what else you know. If you know the mass and can measure the acceleration, you can use that to calculate force, but there are other ways to calculate force.
If you know its past momentum and velocity and of any nearby unbalanced forces that could at on it, then yes.
You might use Newton's Second Law. In this case, you would need to know (a) all forces that act on the object, and (b) the object's mass.
You can't actually calculate it, which is the main reason why, in placeswhere they need to know the weight of things, you find scales.If you happen to know the object's mass, you can multiply that by the localacceleration of gravity, and the result is the object's weight. But what arethe chances of that happening !
No. That's only one of several possibilities. -- with initial velocity, distance, and time, you can calculate acceleration -- with final velocity, distance, and time, you can calculate acceleration -- with force and mass, you can calculate acceleration -- with initial and final momentum, you can calculate acceleration -- with initial and final kinetic energy, you can calculate acceleration -- with mass, velocity at either end, and kinetic energy at the other end, you can calculate acceleration And I'm sure there are several more that I've missed.