The principle of momentum investing-though contrary to the traditional wisdom of buying low and selling high-suggests that ...

In basic physics, the principle of momentum is intuitive: Give a billiard ball a tap, and the ball will keep rolling in the same direction from one second to the next. It’s tempting to apply the ...

Conservation of momentum explains why a gun or cannon recoils backwards when it is fired. When a cannon is fired, the cannon ball gains forward momentum and the cannon gains backward momentum.

When two objects collide the total momentum before the collision is equal to the total momentum after the collision (in the absence of external forces). This is the law of conservation of momentum.