On an interstate highway, you are traveling at 30 m/sec. The diameter of the wheels is 50 cm. How fast are the wheels rotating in revolutions/sec?
c. On your vacation, you visited several casinos in Las Vegas, and in one of them, you stopped by a roulette table. You observed that roulette wheel takes about 25 seconds to come to a stop, and it completed 40 revolutions in this time. How fast was it rotating at the very beginning before starting to slow down?
2.
a. Provide a mathematical definition of momentum, and provide its unit in the
MKS system of units.
b. In a game of billiards, there are usually 11 identical balls. In this problem,
we concentrate on two of them. The first one is hit by the player and moves at a speed of 14 m/sec, and it collides with a second stationary ball. The two balls stick together. What is the speed of the balls after the collision?