A baseball has a mass of 135 grams and a softball has a mass of 270 grams. In which of the following situations would they have the same momentum?
Group of answer choices
The baseball is thrown twice as fast as the softball in the same direction.
The baseball and softball are thrown at the same speed in opposite directions.
The baseball and softball are thrown at the same speed in the same direction.
The softball is thrown twice as fast as the baseball in opposite directions
The baseball and softball are thrown at the same speed in opposite directions.
Wrong
My apologies. The correct answer is:
The softball is thrown twice as fast as the baseball in opposite directions.
In this situation, the momentum of the softball, which has twice the mass, would be the same as the momentum of the baseball thrown in the opposite direction.