Consider the plot of the instantaneous force acting on a system versus the time. The area under the instantaneous force is the
A) mass times the impulse.
B) impulse divided by the time.
C) change in the momentum.
D) total energy in the system.

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The area under the force-time curve represents the impulse, which is equal to the change in momentum of the system according to the impulse-momentum theorem.

Consider the Plot of the Instantaneous Force Acting on a System