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A professional golfer strikes a golf ball with his driver, imparting a momentum of 15kg.m/s on the ball. The golf ball strikes a wall and it remains in contact for 0.0025 seconds before it bounces at the same velocity with which it struck the wall. Calculate the momentum of the golf ball ?

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6400kg.m/s
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3200kg.m/s
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15kg.m/s
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.02kg.m/s
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.01kg.m/s
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Solution

The correct option is E 15kg.m/s
The momentum of a body is defined as p=mv.
Since before and after striking the wall, the speed and the mass of the ball remains the same, the momentum also remains the same=15kg.m/s

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