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Old 3rd July 2008, 12:45   #53 (permalink)
Capt Pit Bull
 
Join Date: Aug 1999
Location: England
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its just that the momentum has to go somewhere eventually.
Watch out. Momentum conservation is not like a set of accounts that has to balance at the end of the tax year. It is balanced instantaneously, as a consequence of Newtons second and third laws.

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