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A golf club exerts an average force of 500N on a 0.1kg golf ball and the contact time is 0.01s.

What is the change in velocity of the golf ball?​

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Answer:

[tex]50\; {\rm m\cdot s^{-1}}[/tex], assuming that the force on the golf ball was constant.

Explanation:

Assume that the force the golf club exerted on the golf ball a constant force of magnitude [tex]F[/tex]. Let [tex]\Delta t[/tex] denote the duration the club was in contact with the golf ball. The impulse of this force would be:

[tex]J = F\, \Delta t[/tex].

Let [tex]\Delta p[/tex] denote the change in the momentum of this golf ball. By the impulse-momentum theorem, this [tex]\Delta p\![/tex] would be equal to the impulse on the golf ball.

[tex]\Delta p = J = F\, \Delta t[/tex].

The momentum [tex]p[/tex] of this golf ball is the scalar product between the mass [tex]m[/tex] of this golf ball and the velocity [tex]v[/tex] of this golf ball. The mass of this golf ball stays the same. Thus, when the momentum of this golf ball changes by [tex]\Delta p[/tex], the velocity of this golf ball would change by [tex](\Delta p) / (m)[/tex].

The change in the velocity of this golf ball would thus be:

[tex]\begin{aligned}\Delta v &= \frac{\Delta p}{m} & \genfrac{}{}{0em}{}{(\text{change in momentum})}{}\\ &= \frac{J}{m} & \genfrac{}{}{0em}{}{(\text{impulse on the golf ball})}{}\\ &= \frac{F\, \Delta t}{m} \\ &= \frac{500\; {\rm N} \times 0.01\; {\rm s}}{0.1\; {\rm kg}} \\ &\approx 50\; {\rm m\cdot s^{-1}}\end{aligned}[/tex].

(Note that [tex]1\; {\rm N} = 1\; {\rm kg \cdot m^{2}\cdot s^{-2}}[/tex].)