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Educational problem
Momentum is defined to be the mass of an object multiplied by its velocity. Its conservation is a fundamental concept of physics along with the conservation of energy and mass; its states that, within some problem domain, the amount of momentum remains constant; momentum is neither created nor destroyed, but only changed through the action of forces as described by Newton's laws of motion.
Dealing with momentum is more difficult than dealing with mass and energy because momentum is a vector quantity having both a magnitude and a direction. Momentum is conserved in all three physical directions at the same time.
The students will also learn about the structure of matter at a subatomic level, and about the experiments carried out at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
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Last update | 20/06/2013