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Grade 10General Physics

what is the law of conservation of momentum and who initiated it and explain with its derivation

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For a collision occurring between object 1 and object 2 in an isolated system, the total momentum of the two objects before the collision is equal to the total momentum of the two objects after the collision. That is, the momentum lost by object 1 is equal to the momentum gained by object 2.