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Old 24th Nov 2012, 11:49
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hen I did my aero engineering degree I must have missed a lecture where they explained that momentum was a force.
and i missed the bit where i claimed that it was well.

But hey you can't let the facts get in the way of an attack now can you.

what i said and repeated was that a force is derived from the momentum to make the glider go up against gravity.

In this circumstance there are 4 forces acting on the glider not 3.

The momentum is not a force it creates a force on the mass to push it in a direction momentum has a quantity and a vector.
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