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CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM

Recoil of Gun

Gun recoil is a result of conservation

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Isolated system

Here no external force is acting on the system

In an isolated system, mutual forces act.

Momentum of individual particles change

Total momentum remains

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Energy and Momentum Conservation

Question

The total momentum of an isolated system of interacting particles is conserved

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Answers

Momentum is conserved for both elastic and inelastic collisions

Kinetic Energy is conserved for both elastic and inelastic collisions

Kinetic Energy is conserved only for elastic collisions

Momentum is conserved only for elastic collisions

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