Your tiny Italian sports car collides with a city bus. Your car's velocity changes abruptly and you drive into a haystack. The bus barely accelerates at all. Fortunately, no one is hurt. The momentum your car received during the collision was
A. zero, because no distance was traveled by your car during the collision itself. [0.8% picked]
B. greater than the momentum the bus lost during the collision. [9.6% picked]
C. equal to the momentum the bus lost during the collision. [86.3% picked]
D. less than the momentum the bus lost during the collision, but more than zero. [3.2% picked]
Answer:C
Your tiny Italian sports car collides with a city bus. Your car's velocity changes abruptly and you drive into a haystack. The bus barely accelerates at all. Fortunately, no one is hurt. The momentum your car received during the collision was
A. zero, because no distance was traveled by your car during the collision itself. [0.8% picked] B. greater than the momentum the bus lost during the collision. [9.6% picked] C. equal to the momentum the bus lost during the collision. [86.3% picked] D. less than the momentum the bus lost during the collision, but more than zero. [3.2% picked]