Followup
1. How do you find the momentum of an object?
2. What effect did changing the mass or velocity of a cart have on its momentum?
3. In the elastic collisions above, how did the carts react after colliding with one another?
4. How did the carts react after colliding with one another in the inelastic collisions?
5. How would you find total momentum and what is it?
6. Compare the initial and final total momentums from scenarios 1-4. Did the momentum change at
all from before to after the collision? (hint: this is asking about the Law of Conservation of
Momentum!)
7. In the scenarios where one of the carts stopped after the collision, where did its momentum go?
8. Give 2 pieces of evidence from the simulation that support that momentum is conserved
following any type of collision.