A tennis ball of mass= 0.058 kg and speed= 19 m/s strikes a wall at a 45 degree angle and rebounds with the same speed at 45 degrees.

What is the magnitude of the impulse given to the ball?

2 answers

Only the momentum component perpendicular to the wall changed.

The change,
2M*V cos 45,
equals the impulse given
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