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Bryce, a mouse lover, keeps his four pet mice in a roomy cage, where they spend much of their spare time-when they're not sleeping or eating-joyfully scampering about on the cage's floor. Bryce tracks his mice's health diligently and just now recorded their masses as 0.0107 kg, 0.0163 kg, 0.0123 kg, and 0.0141 kg. At this very instant the x and y components of the mice's velocities are, respectively, (0.689 m/s, -0.785 m/s), (-0.469 m/s, -0.295 m/s), (0.589 m/s, 0.923 m/s), and (-0.987 m/s, 0.927 m/s). Calculate the x and y components of Bryce's mice's total momentum, px and py.

Explanation / Answer

For calculating the x component of momentum

Px = m1*vx1 +m2*vx2+m3*vx3+m4*vx4

putting the value of m and velocities as with sign we get Px = -0.0069444 Kgm/s


Similarly for Py = 0.0112156 Kgm/s