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CHAPTER 9 Physics Test Prep

MOMENTUM AND ITS CONSERVATION
Choose the best answer for each of the following questions. Mark your answers on the answer sheet
provided by your teacher.
1. Two skaters, Elena and Tara, face each 4. A 945-kg car is moving along a straight highway
other on the ice. Elena has a mass of 57.4 kg, with a velocity of 98 km/h. The driver applies
and Tara has a mass of 48.3 kg. Both are the brakes and reduces the car’s speed to
motionless until they push away with a force of 36 km/h in 8.5 s. What is the impulse on
33 N. Then Elena has a velocity of 1.4 m/s. What the car?
is Tara’s velocity?
A 1.9103 N • s
A 1.7 m/s B 6.9103 N • s
B 2.0 m/s C 1.6104 N • s
C 2.4 m/s D 3.4104 N • s
D 2.8 m/s 5. The diagram shows two 0.17-kg billiard balls.
The white ball strikes the stationary black ball
2. The angular momentum of a spinning wheel
and moves off at an angle 60.0 north of east.
decreases from 8.4 kg • m2/s to 4.7 kg • m2/s
The black ball moves off at an angle 48.2 south
over a period of 2.1 s. What is the angular
of east.
impulse that slowed the wheel?
A 0.57 kg • m2/s
B 1.7 kg • m2/s
C 3.7 kg • m2/s
D 7.8 kg • m2/s

3. A 0.068-kg ball strikes a wall with a velocity of

22.1 m/s. The wall stops the ball in 0.36 s. What
is the magnitude of the force applied by the
wall on the ball?
A 2.4 N What is the white ball’s initial velocity?
B 4.2 N A 0.80 m/s
C 5.3 N B 1.1 m/s
D 12 N C 1.3 m/s
D 1.4 m/s

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6. A 2100-kg car is traveling at 25 m/s when it Use the following diagram for problems 8 and 9.
crashes into the rear end of a 1650-kg car
traveling at 21 m/s in the same direction on ice.
The two cars become stuck together and slide
on the ice. How fast do the two cars move
together immediately after the collision?
A 23 m/s
B 22 m/s
C 21 m/s
D 18 m/s

7. Two hockey players, Z and Q, are standing 8. The diagram shows a car traveling north
face-to-face and stationary on the ice. Skater Z colliding with a car traveling east. After the
has a mass of 72.5 kg. Skater Q has a mass of collision, the cars stick together and move off in
65.3 kg. Skater Z shoves Skater Q. Which another direction. What is the magnitude of the
statement below best represents the skaters' cars’ final momentum?
momenta and motion after the shove?
A 5.96104 kg • m/s
A The momenta of the skaters after the shove
B 1.19104 kg • m/s
are equal in magnitude but opposite in
direction. Skater Z’s motion is an example of C 3.13104 kg • m/s
recoil. D 3.17104 kg • m/s
B The momenta of the skaters after the shove 9. At what angle north of east is the cars’ direction
are equal in magnitude and in direction. of motion after the collision?
C The momenta of the skaters after the shove A 36.5
are equal in magnitude but opposite in
direction. Skater Q’s motion is an example B 38.2 
of recoil. C 39.8 
D The momenta of the skaters after the shove D 53.4 
are of inverse proportion in magnitude and
opposite in direction. The motion of both
skaters are examples of recoil.