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Page 1: Essential University Physics Systems of Particles

Chapter 9 Lecture

Essential University PhysicsRichard Wolfson

2nd Edition

© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Slide 9-1

Systems of Particles

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© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Slide 9-2

In this lecture you’ll learn

• How to find the center of mass

of a system of particles

• The principle of conservation

of momentum, and how it

applies to systems of

particles

• How to analyze collisions

– Inelastic collisions

– Elastic collisions

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Center of Mass

• The center of mass of a composite object or system of

particles is the point where, from the standpoint of

Newton’s second law, the mass acts as though it were

concentrated.

• The position of the center of mass is a weighted

average of the positions of the individual particles:

– For a system of discrete particles,

– For a continuous distribution of matter,

– In both cases, M is the system’s total mass.

cm

i im rr

M

cm

r dmr

M

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Finding the Center of Mass

• Example: A system of three particles in an equilateral triangle

• Example: A system of continuous matter

• Express the mass element dm in terms

of the geometrical variable x:

• Evaluate the integral:

so

xcm mx1 mx3

4mm(x1 x1)

4m 0

ycm my1 my3

4m

2my1

4m

1

2y1

3

4L 0.43L

dm

M

(w/L)x dx1

2 wL

2x dx

L2

xcm 1

Mx dm

1

M 0

L

x2Mx

L2dx

2

L20

L

x2  dx

xcm 2

L2 0

L

x2  dx 2

L2x3

3 0

L

2L3

3L2

2

3L

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More on Center of Mass

• The center of mass of a composite

object can be found from the CMs

of its individual parts.

• An object’s center of mass

need not lie within the object!

– Which point is the CM?• The high jumper clears the

bar, but his CM doesn’t.

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Motion of the Center of Mass

• The center of mass obeys Newton’s second law:

net external cmF Ma

• Here most parts of the skier’s body undergo complex

motions, but his center of mass describes the parabolic

trajectory of a projectile:

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Motion of the Center of Mass

• In the absence of any external forces on a system, the center

of mass motion remains unchanged; if it’s at rest, it remains

in the same place—no matter what internal forces may act.

• Example: Jumbo, a 4.8-t elephant, walks 19 m toward one

end of the car, but the CM of the 15-t rail car plus elephant

doesn’t move. This allows us to find the car’s final position:

J Jf c cf J Ji cf c cfcm

J

J c

(19 m)(4.8 t)

( ) (15 t 4.8 t)

m x m x m x x m xx

M M

m

m m

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Momentum and the Center of Mass

• The center of mass obeys Newton’s law, which can

be written or, equivalently,

where is the total momentum of the system:

with the velocity of the center of mass, and

net external cmF Ma

net external

dPF

dt

P

cmi iP m v Mv

cmv

cmcm

dva

dt

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• When the net external force is zero, .

• Therefore the total momentum of the system is unchanged:

This is the conservation of linear momentum.

0dP dt

constantP

Conservation of Momentum

• Example: A system of three billiard balls:

– Initially two are at rest;

all the momentum is in

the left-hand ball:

– Now they’re all moving, but the

total momentum remains the same:

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Collisions

• A collision is a brief, intense interaction between objects.

– Examples: balls on a pool table, a tennis ball and racket,

baseball and bat, football and foot, an asteroid colliding with

a planet.

– The collision time is short compared with the timescale of the

objects’ overall motion.

– Internal forces of the collision are so large that we can

neglect any external forces acting on the system during the

brief collision time.

– Therefore linear momentum is essentially conserved during

collisions.

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Impulse

• If is the average force acting on one object during a

collision that lasts for time Dt, then Newton’s second law

reads , or

• The product of average force and time that appears in this

equation is called impulse.

F

/ ,F p t D D

p F tD D

• The force in a collision usually

isn’t constant and can fluctuate

wildly, so

( )p J F t dtD

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Elastic and Inelastic Collisions

• In an elastic collision, the internal forces of the

collision are conservative.

– Therefore an elastic collision conserves kinetic energy as

well as linear momentum.

• In an inelastic collision, the forces are not

conservative and mechanical energy is lost.

– In a totally inelastic collision, the colliding objects stick

together to form a single composite object.

– But if a collision is totally inelastic, that doesn’t necessarily

mean that all kinetic energy is lost.

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Totally Inelastic Collisions

• Totally inelastic collisions are governed entirely by

conservation of momentum.

– Since the colliding objects join to form a single composite

object, there’s only one final velocity:

• Therefore conservation of momentum reads

Before collision After collision

1 1 2 2 1 2 fm v m v m m v

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Elastic Collisions

• Elastic collisions conserve both momentum and kinetic

energy:

• Therefore the conservation laws read

Before collision After collision

1 1i 2 2i 1 1f 2 2f

2 2 2 21 1 1 11 1i 2 2i 1 1f 2 2f2 2 2 2

m v m v m v m v

m v m v m v m v

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Elastic Collisions in One Dimension

• In general, the conservation laws don’t determine the

outcome of an elastic collision.

– Other information is needed, such as the direction of one

of the outgoing particles.

• But for one-dimensional collisions, when particles collide

head-on, then the initial velocities determine the outcome:

• Solving both conservation laws in this case gives

1 2 21f 1i 2i

1 2 1 2

1 2 12f 1i 2i

1 2 1 2

2

2

m m mv v v

m m m m

m m mv v v

m m m m

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Special Cases: 1-D Elastic Collisions;

m2 Initially at Rest

1) m1 << m2:

Incident object rebounds with

essentially its incident velocity

2) m1 = m2:

Incident object stops; struck

object moves away with initial

speed of incident object

3) m1 >> m2:

Incident object continues with

essentially its initial velocity;

struck object moves away with

twice that velocity

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Summary

• A composite system behaves as though its mass is

concentrated at the center of mass:

• The center of mass obeys Newton’s laws, so

cm

i im rr

M

cm

r dmr

M

net external cm net external or, equivalently, dP

F Ma Fdt

• In the absence of a net external force, a system’s linear

momentum is conserved, regardless of what happens internally

to the system.

• Collisions are brief, intense interactions that conserve

momentum.

– Elastic collisions also conserve kinetic energy.

– Totally inelastic collisions occur when colliding objects join to make

a single composite object.

(discrete particles) (continuous matter)