Chapter 10 of 2363 min read

Newton's laws, inertia, impulse and momentum

Why this is asked: Action–reaction pairs act on two different bodies, so they can never be added together to argue that nothing accelerates — a body stays at rest only when the net force on that one body is zero.

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Test yourself

•A ball of mass 0.5 kg is dropped from a height of 40 m. The ball hits the ground and rises to a height of 10 m. The impulse imparted to the ball during its collision with the ground is (take $g = 9.8 m/ s^{2}$ ):

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