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What is the impact that a body can produce due to the combined effect of mass and velocity called ? What is its unit ?

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The impact that a body can produce due to the combined effect of mass and velocity is called momentum. It is directly proportional to the mass and velocity of a body.
Mathematically momentum is equal to the product of mass and velocity of a body.
Its S.I. unit is kg m/s.

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