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    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Courses/Berea_College/Introductory_Physics%3A_Berea_College/10%3A_Linear_Momentum_and_the_Center_of_Mass/10.01%3A_Momentum
      We thus have: ddt(p1+p2)=Fext Furthermore, if we introduce the “total momentum of the system”, P=p1+p2, as...We thus have: ddt(p1+p2)=Fext Furthermore, if we introduce the “total momentum of the system”, P=p1+p2, as the sum of the momenta of the individual particles, we find: dPdt=Fext which is the equivalent of Newton’s Second Law for a system where, P, is the total momentum of the system, and the sum of the forces is only over external …

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