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Momentum is a vector and so obeys the laws of vector addition. These imply that the momentum of two two objects will be the sum of the individual momentum only if the objects are moving in the same direction.

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Is it true two objects with the same mass will always have the same momentum?

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How All objects have momentum true or false?

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If two objects have the same velocity do they have the same momentum?

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If object A and object B collide object A have the same momentum as it had before the collision True or false?

False. In a collision between two objects, momentum is conserved but it is not necessarily distributed evenly between the objects after the collision. The total momentum before the collision should be equal to the total momentum after the collision, but individual objects may have different momenta.


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Is momentum conserved in elastic collisions?

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