conservation of momentum

1. 1.

   the principle that the total linear momentum in a closed system is constant and is not affected by processes occurring inside the system

   Broaderconservation

Questions about conservation of momentum

What does conservation of momentum mean?

conservation of momentum means "the principle that the total linear momentum in a closed system is constant and is not affected by processes occurring inside the system".

Is conservation of momentum a common word?

conservation of momentum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.