Question

You apply a force on an object that is 100 times its mass. The acceleration of the object will be 100m/s^2. After a while, it perpendicularly hits another object with a mass 10 times smaller than the first object. When they collide, in theory, the momentum of the first object will all get transferred into the small object. And that means, the heavy object will completely be at rest, while the smaller object will have a force applied to it by the big object equal to ma. In real life, it seems that when two objects collide, the bigger object doesn’t completely stop and just pushes the smaller or the same massed object. In real life, it seems that when the collision happens, the first object continues moving towards the other object, and doesn’t completely get at rest right after the collision. Why is that?

Answer 1

The bigger object will move some distance because the initial and final momentum of the colliding particles are not zero.

What is momentum?

The term momentum has to do with the product of mass and velocity. We know that during a collision, momentum is conserved. This implies that the momentum before collision is equal to the momentum after collision. Thus, the total momentum of the system is constant.

Given the fact that the initial and final momentum of the colliding particles are not zero, the  the big object is not going to stop immediately but must move some distance towards the smaller object.

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