This incident was not unique. Fatalities from welding and hot work are often are associated with confined spaces and the areas adjacent to these confined spaces . The CSB has identified over 60 fatalities since 1990 due to explosions and fires from hot work activities on tanks, which are, of course, confined spaces.
moâ¢menâ¢tum. 1. force or speed of movement; impetus, as of a physical object or course of events: a career that lost momentum. 2. Mech. a quantity expressing the motion of a body or system, equal to the product of the mass of a body and its velocity.
This entry contributed by Leonardo Motta. Conservation of momentum is a fundamental law of physics which states that the momentum of a system is constant if there are no external forces acting on the system. It is embodied in Newton's first law (the law of inertia). Suppose we have two interacting particles 1 and 2, possibly of different masses.