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How would you convince somebody that the momentum of an isolated system is constant? (...

How would you convince somebody that the momentum of an isolated system is constant?

(a) It is a law; thus, you do not need to convince anybody.

(b) Use an example from a textbook to show that the sum of the initial and final velocities of the objects involved in a collision are the same.

(c) Derive it from Newton’s second and third laws.

(d) Use it to make predictions about a new experiment, and then compare the outcome to the prediction.

(e) Both (c) and (d) will work.

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