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Look carefully at the pictures
below. Can you figure out which plastic water bottle will hit the
floor first?
There are three choices: one is filled with water, one is filled
with dice, one is empty.
If you are an EVG sixth grader,
you know that MOMENTUM = MASS X VELOCITY.
And therefore you figured out the answer--the bottle with
the greater mass would hit first.
(Ask a student in Mrs. Castaldo's class for the details.) |