In times square in new york city, people celebrate on new year's eve. some just stand around, but many move about randomly. consider a system comprised of all of these people. approximately, what is the total linear momentum of this system at any given instant?

The total linear momentum at any time is zero.

Explanation:

Hi there!

The momentum of an object is a vector that is calculated by multiplying the mass of the object times its velocity.

The momentum of the system is calculated by adding the momenta of each object that comprise the system (in this case, all the people in Times Square).

Since the people move randomly in all directions, it is most probable that the total momentum of the system is zero because the momentum vectors of people moving in one direction will surely be canceled by the momentum vectors of people moving in the opposite direction. In total, the sum of momentum vectors will be zero (the standing people have null momentum because their velocities are zero).

quantum mechanics or quantum physics is physics of very small objects (particles) and physical entities.

quantum physics has some parallels to our macro world and some pretty unique ideas which theoretically and mathematically proven to be true even though we will never be able to access them because of our size.

there are many types of particles: subatomic, elementary etc.

subatomic means they are smaller than atom, elementary means they are at the very basis of everything.

subatomic particles are for eg. protons, neutrons but not electrons.

elementary particles are categorised into 3 groups by what they do.

these 3 groups are quarks, leptons and bosons.

light for example is a particle more precisely a photon a part of leptons.

proton (subatomic particle) is made out of 2 up quarks and 1 down quark each of these has a fractional charge like . (i crazy)

most famous scientist who contributed to this physics are:

the topic itself us understand a lot and will probably be vastly used in the future (quantum computers, understanding the big bang,

we also must not forget quantum effects like:

and there is more. but probably too much for this answer to be consistent due to my average understanding of this topic.

hope this you understand quantum mechanics a little more. i'm not an expert in the topic (so don't be like wth if you are an expert) but i'm very interested in it.

anyways quantum physics is a very hard topic (harder than physics (perhaps)) therefore searching for every information there is about it and learning it is unfortunately impossible (you can only specialise into 1 - 3 things or more (perhaps

have fun and i wish you luck!

r3t40

i believe the answer would be:

d. violin, clarinet, french horn, and tuba