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Giancoli's Physics: Principles with Applications, 7th Edition
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Linear Momentum
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Question by Giancoli, Douglas C., Physics: Principles with Applications, 7th Ed., ©2014, Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education Inc., New York.
Problem 16
Q

A golf ball of mass 0.045 kg is hit off the tee at a speed of 38 m/s. The golf club was in contact with the ball for 3.5×103 s3.5 \times 10^{-3} \textrm{ s}. Find

  1. the impulse imparted to the golf ball, and
  2. the average force exerted on the ball by the golf club.
A
  1. 1.7 kg m/s1.7 \textrm{ kg m/s}
  2. 490 N490\textrm{ N}
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This is Giancoli Answers with Mr. Dychko. The impulse given to the golf ball is equal to its change in momentum that's final momentum minus initial momentum. but it has no initial momentum because it's at rest on the tee to begin with so P i is 0. So the change in momentum is equal to the final momentum and that's mass times its velocity so that's 0.045 kilograms times 38 meters per second which gives 1.7 kilograms meters per second of impulse. The force is impulse divided by the time during which that force is applied and so that's 1.71 kilograms meters per second. And notice that I'm using the unrounded number in this subsequent calculation so this avoids intermediate rounding error. So you don't wanna use a rounded answer in later calculations instead you should use the unrounded answer; only round final answers and when you are using those answers in later calculations, use the unrounded version. So I have 1.71 here so I plug that in for change of momentum and divide that by 3.5 milliseconds, the question tells us, and with two significant figures in our answer, we have 490 newtons must have been the force that the golf club applied to the ball.

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