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Mechanics of particles and systems Foundations of particle mechanics Concept

Impulse

Builds on MomentumNewton's laws of motion

Summary

The impulse of a force over a time interval is the integral of the force with respect to time. By Newton's second law, the impulse of the net force on a particle equals the change of its momentum. Impulse is useful for short, strong forces, such as a bat hitting a ball. There the force itself is hard to measure, but the change of momentum is not.

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  1. Web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse_(physics)
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