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What name is given to the product of mass and velocity of the object?


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Momentum:

  1. The product of the mass of a body and its velocity is called linear momentum. It is denoted by p.
  2. Mathematically we can write,

p=m×v

Here, m is the mass of the object and v is the velocity.


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