A football player whose mass is 49.9 kg is running at 5.78 m/s. The momentum of the player is ___ kg•m/s

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Ahmad Pope

25 May, 02:48

A football player whose mass is 49.9 kg is running at 5.78 m/s. The momentum of the player is ___ kg•m/s

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Carissa Cortez · Answer 1

Momentum is mass x velocity so ...

Here we have the mass = 49.9kg

and the velocity = 5.78 m/s

So ...

p = (49.9) (5.78)

p = 288.422 - -> roughly 288.4 kgm/s