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Two cars travelling towards one another collide. Compare the impulse exerted on each car during the collision.

Newton’s third law of motion states that every force has an equal and opposite reaction force.¹As the forces acting on each car is an action-reaction pair, the cars will experience the same magnitude of force in the opposite direction to one another.²As i=F*delta t, both cars experience an impulse equal in magnitude but opposite in direction, as the force is exerted on one another for the same period of time.³

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