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प्रश्न
What do you understand by the term momentum?
उत्तर
The instantaneous force which body possesses due to the combined effect of mass and velocity is called momentum of the body. Mathematically, momentum is the product of mass and velocity.
P = mv
where P represents the momentum of the body.
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