A car has a head-on collision with another car that was approaching with the same magnitude of momentum.A third identical car driving with the same speed as the first car runs into an enormously massive wall.Which of the four objects will experience the greatest impulse?

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Impulse is the change in momentum. In both collisions (car-car and car-wall), the change in momentum for each car is the same, as they all come to a stop. Thus, all objects experience the same impulse.

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