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Linear Momentum Trying to stop a speeding bullet is a difficult task, because it has a high velocity. Stopping a slowly moving oil tanker is also a difficult due to its large mass. In general, the combination of mass and velocity is called the linear momentum.
Both a speeding bullet and the slowly moving oil tanker have a large linear momentum. We can compare them by actually coagulating the linear momentum by using the formula above. Both the mass and the velocity are involved in momentum. A small car and a large truck both traveling at 50 km/h may have the same velocity but the truck will have more momentum because it has a larger mass.
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