Conservation of linear momentum in the x-direction gives the following result relating the velocities of the cart and the plate's COM, G: v B = -(m/M) v Gx. From this we know that the cart and G ...

A sphere moving on a smooth horizontal surface (the xy-plane) impacts a set of 13 cubes at rest on the same surface.This impacts leads to a number of subsequent impacts among these cubes. The ...

The fact that light carries both linear and angular momentum is well-known to physicists. One application of the linear momentum of light is for optical tweezers, in which the refraction of a ...