A truck is carrying a load of furniture and has a momentum of 33,842 kg m/s. If half of the furniture falls off the truck (mass is cut in half), what is the truck’s new momentum?

16921

Explanation:

Usually, if and when the truck does lose part of its load, or load gets cut into half, then it's momentum gets reduced to half of the original momentum. This is because, from the definition of momentum, we understand that it's the multiplication of mass and velocity. This means that if the mass gets reduced to half, then the total momentum goes ahead to be reduced to half just as well.

New momentum = 1/2 * 33842

New momentum = 16,921 kg∙m/s.