Question

I just studied about Momentum. So I thought of an experiment. If a body is moving with a constant velocity, it has a constant momentum. But as soon as a force is applied on the body, it accelerates and hence, the momentum also changed. Is it violating Law of Conservation of Momentum ? If not, please tell how

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Conservation of momentum, general law of physics according to which the quantity called momentum that characterizes motion never changes in an isolated collection of objects; that is, the total momentum of a system remains constant. Momentum is equal to the mass of an object multiplied by its velocity and is equivalent to the force required to bring the object to a stop in a unit length of time. For any array of several objects, the total momentum is the sum of the individual momenta. There is a peculiarity, however, in that momentum is a vector, involving both the direction and the magnitude of motion, so that the momenta of objects going in opposite directions can cancel to yield an overall sum of zero.

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