The pendulum is a weight on a weightless thread. After the push, the load moves along a circle lying in the horizontal plane
August 15, 2020 | Education
| The pendulum is a weight on a weightless thread. After the push, the load moves along a circle lying in the horizontal plane. Is the momentum of the load conserved? Is the magnitude of the pulse conserved?
The momentum is not conserved, since the resultant is nonzero. The magnitude of the impulse will not change, since the force is perpendicular to the speed and no work is done.
