Consider the three objects shown in ▼ Figure 6.1: a 0.22-caliber bullet (mass 10−3 kg and velocity 102 m/s), a cruise ship (mass 108 kg and velocity 101 m/s), and a glacier (mass 1012 kg and velocity 10−5 m/s). Compute order-of-magnitude values of the linear momentum of the objects.
THINKING IT THROUGH. Given the mass and velocity of each object, the magnitude of its momentum can be estimated in order of magnitude using Equation 6.1.

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p=mv (6.1)