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A gnat hits your windshield as you drive down the road. Which gets the greater impulse? cannot be determined both have the same the windshield the gnat

Glencoe Physics: Principles and Problems, Student Edition

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Author:Paul W. Zitzewitz

Publisher:Paul W. Zitzewitz

Chapter9: Momentum And Its Conservation

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A gnat hits your windshield as you drive down the road.

Which gets the greater impulse?

cannot be determined

both have the same

the windshield

the gnat

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