Mechanical Engineering

One of the most powerful laws in physics is the law of momentum conservation. The law of…

The Law of Action-Reaction A collision is an interaction between two objects that have made…

Occasionally when objects collide, they bounce off each other as opposed to sticking to each other and…

First we will examine the importance of the collision time in affecting the amount of…

In a collision, an object experiences a force for a given amount of time that results in its massundergoing a change in…

From the definition of momentum, it becomes obvious that an object has a large momentum…

Momentum is a vector quantity. As discussed in an earlier unit, a vector quantity is a quantity that…

Momentum                                                                 The sports announcer says, "Going into the all-star break, the Chicago White Sox have themomentum." The headlines…

Double Trouble in 2 Dimensions In the Newton's laws unit, the topic of two-body problems was introduced.…

When all the forces that act upon an object are balanced, then the object is…