Is LINEAR momentum conserved?

Is LINEAR momentum conserved?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Is it constant?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Hahahahahahahahahahaha and OP will have no idea what it means when it's not constant and why it sometimes is constant or what it means to be constant when there's more than one object

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Is it constant?

        >I-It's conserved bro
        >except when it isn't

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It’s basic maf if OP can’t figure it out maybe he should drop PHYS 101

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            But so is Angular momentum and that isn't conserved

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >conservation of momentum states that a body retains its total momentum unless acted upon by an external force
            So yes, linear momentum is conserved, as is all momentum. Now, go take a dynamics class and realize there's typically dozens of external forces acting on every body in motion at every moment it is in motion. Once you start thinking about this level of interaction, it will completely change how you view the world.

            Angular momentum is conserved. All momentum of a body is conserved unless the body is acted upon by an outside force - this is a law of physics.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Angular momentum is conserved. All momentum of a body is conserved unless the body is acted upon by an outside force - this is a law of physics.
            Have you not read Dr. J. Mandlbaur's groundbreaking thesis on the subject, were you in a coma for the last week?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Huh?
            Something something schizo post something something cranking it?
            Sorry, the only physicist's work on momentum I need is Isaac Newton.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356786155_A_flaw_in_the_law_of_conservation_of_angular_momentum

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I'm sorry, I'm just not going to read it. I'm sorry, I know, but I'm just not. Isaac Newton is good enough for me!

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            just have a look at pic then, Dr. J Mandlbaur is arguably on the level of Newton if not past him

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I'm sorry, I won't. I know, it's very disheartening, but really, I'm so sorry, but I just won't read it. Isaac Newton is just fine, thank. So sorry!

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Do you trust Newton's papers on alchemy too?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I'm so sorry, but I just won't read it! Isaac Newton's model of momentum is 100% correct and has been proven so. I'm sorry, but I just won't read anyone else about it! So sorry, truly.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Great, I'm just asking if you also trust in his models of alchemy and his statement of the world ending no later than by 2060?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I trust his model of momentum, which is what we're discussing. I'm so sorry, but I just won't let you pull me off the topic at hand to something else entirely! So sorry, really and truly, but I just won't do that lol I know, it's quite frustrating, but I won't discuss those other things and I won't read anyone but Isaac Newton about momentum! So sorry, indeed, very sorry haha but it's just the way it is!

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            It's very odd how dogmatic you are.
            Do you mind telling me your gender?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I'm sorry, but we're discussing angular momentum and the conservation thereof! Again - and I know, it's quite frustrating - but I won't discuss any other thing! So sorry, I know, quite frustrating I understand, but I just won't do it haha

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            bump

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Newton's equations wrongfully assign light a momentum of zero, which is clearly false.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >and his statement of the world ending no later than by 2060?
            ...how'd he do it... Succesfully predict the singularity,..

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Angular momentum is conserved in the rotational analog of the cases where linear momentum is conversed

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    if linear momentum is conserved, then the average momentum of everything in the universe is exactly 0.
    But it's not 0 for two reasons:
    1, precisely 0 momentum is a vastly unlikely value and it'll be somewhere around 0 but not 0 exactly
    2, Heisenberg uncertainty principle says that if momentum is 0 to infinite precision, then the measurement of the location of the matter is of infinite IMPRECISION. If the location of matter is undefined (infinitely imprecise), then you can't calculate the total momentum of all the matter since you don't have their distances to calculate their speeds.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >precisely 0 momentum is a vastly unlikely value and it'll be somewhere around 0 but not 0 exactly
      That's not a reason Black person, it's just a restatement.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Heisenberg uncertainty principle applies to macroscopic objects
      Kys you fricking Black person.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        you are moronic

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Wow, you are dumb.
      >sum of all must be zero
      nope, could be conserved with a non-zero starting value, furthermore, good luck with finding a reference frame
      >uncertainty in pure theory
      you should go back. if the momentum were zero, it does not matter if i can or cannot measure it. it remains is zero regardless.
      but please, continue posting. I'd love to see you vainly struggle to break out of this mess you've made.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >if linear momentum is conserved, then the average momentum of everything in the universe is exactly 0.
      This is what watching Rick and Morty does to your ego

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'm pretty sure i have never observed something move in a completely linear fashion, not having any sway in z axis

    This problem doesn't feel very realistic

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I throw a ball linearly at a brick wall. Where does the linear momentum go?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      it was conserved away

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Into the wall and everything it's connected to, so usually the Earth.

        But the wall is not linear to the direction of the linearly thrown ball.

        The linear momentum dissipates into the wall and earth nonlinearly

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >the wall is not linear
          It's literally equal and opposite. If you threw the ball exactly perpendicular to the wall, the momentum is conserved by the ball coming to a stop against the wall with an equal force in an exactly opposite direction of impact perpendicular to the wall.
          Take a dynamics class instead of thinking the world is a 2-D point-particle extrapolation to make these things easier to understand.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            But the momentum from the ball into the wall transfers to the wall non linearally, because there are reverberations and shockwaves, linear momentum is converted into non linear momentum, linear momentum is not conserved as linear momentum

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Into the wall and everything it's connected to, so usually the Earth.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      with a perfectly elastic ball the wall receives twice the momentum of the incoming ball.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Frictional losses

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        If it can be lost, then it is not conserved.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        If it can be lost, then it is not conserved.

        The atoms of the brick wall recieve the momentum and disperse it linearly among them

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >unfalsifiable pseud claim
          as expected

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >but please, continue posting. I'd love to see you vainly struggle to break out of this mess you've made.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    bro my frickin' ROUTER does 12000 RPM
    where's your gay schizo theory now huh homosexual?

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The universe does not have translational symmetry. You cannot translate the universe because there is no space outside the universe into which you could translate it. Therefore by Noether's theorem linear momentum is not conserved.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    well you have to define 0 somewhere

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Nope.

      An amount of energy exists.

      Energy cannot be created or destroyed.

      Therefore the amount of energy that exists has always existed and will always exist

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        and somewhere it averages out 🙂

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          No. The only way to get 0 would be if only forever absolsolutly nothing exists.

          So you start from 0 and start counting every quanta of energy;
          1 photon, 2 photon, 3 photon... 999999999999 photon... 999999999999999999999999999 photon.....

          1 electron, 2 electron, 3 electron........ 9999999999 electron...... 99999999999999999999999 electron.........

          The sum of all energy is sum number positively very distant from 0.

          There is no fake human tricks here over crossing and carrying and mixing and matching. There's no canceling out anything, it's all ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ....

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            A 5kg steel ball is 9m from the surface of the Earth. Hope much gravitational potential energy does it have?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            a kilogram of steel is actually heavier than a kilogram of feathers, because the steel is closer to the earth's center due to being more dense

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You can look at a system and say they'd 10J and I say 100J. We can both be right at long as the change of potential is the same for both definitions from our respective 0s. Go read Morrin classical mechanics on potential energies

  9. 2 years ago
    DoctorGreen

    to be fair, if you want to prove a universal statement about Reality, then it follows rationally that you need universal empirical proof.
    all life on Earth (past, present or future) will never provide that proof.
    all science is anecdotal. just roll with it

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    12,000 m/s disproves COLM

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      who is colm and why are you angry at him

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Amazing it took this long to get the right answer.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I feel like I'm getting crazy. Every so often I see some schizo post about conservation of momentum and how it is wrong and how it's a big deal, either on IQfy, IQfy and I am certain I saw the same on /x/ too, but everytime my mind just ignores it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That's because it is a single schizo troll who get kicked from /x/ for being too much of a wackjob.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's one guy and maybe a few copycats. He is legitimately mentally ill.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    yes obviously

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >yes obviously
      see

      just have a look at pic then, Dr. J Mandlbaur is arguably on the level of Newton if not past him

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