The meaning of stating that a quantity such as linear momentum is conserved.
Answer to Problem 1ASA
When a quantity is said to be conserved in a process, it means that the quantity has the same (magnitude and direction) both before and after the process. If a collision process is considered, the linear momentum of the total system before collision will be equal to that after collision, and hence linear momentum is conserved in the collision process.
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Conservation of physical quantities are very important in physics. There are many conservation laws such as conservation of linear momentum, conservation of
The linear momentum conservation is one of the major conservation laws in physics. If collision process is considered, the linear momentum of the system before collision will be equal to that after collision.
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