Timeline for Conservation of momentum when rain pours into a wagon
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| Dec 16, 2014 at 5:57 | comment | added | AmigoNico | Would you really say that friction is required to accelerate the raindrops? If a raindrop falling into the wagon slid frictionlessly to the back, would it not be pushed by -- and therefore push back against -- the rear wall of the wagon? | |
| Dec 15, 2014 at 9:58 | comment | added | mpv | @Benjam If the raindrops are falling at the same velocity as the wagon, then the wagon does not slow down. The mass of the wagon is increasing, but also the momentum is increasing: each raindrop is adding its momentum to the wagon. | |
| Dec 15, 2014 at 7:47 | comment | added | Benjam | What if the raindrops happen to be falling with a horizontal velocity exactly equal to that of the wagon? | |
| Dec 15, 2014 at 3:39 | history | edited | user65081 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 15, 2014 at 3:08 | history | answered | Alessandro Power | CC BY-SA 3.0 |