Mission MC10 Momentum and Proportional Reasoning

Mission MC10 focuses on the use of a skill known as proportional reasoning to predict the post-collision speed of an object involved in a hit-stick-style collision. The mission consists of 28 questions organized into 7 Question Groups. You must answer one question from each Question Group to complete the mission. The learning outcome for this mission is ...

• The student should be able to use the conservation of momentum principle to predict the effect of an increase in mass upon the final velocity of an object.

If you are not familiar with this topic, then you should first learn about the topic using our written Tutorial or our Video Tutorial:
 

• What is momentum?
• How can the momentum of a single object be calculated?
• How can one predict the post-collision speed of a system if the exact mass values are not known (but the mass ratios are known)?

Proportional Reasoning and Collision Analysis