Consider two carts, of masses m and 2m, at rest on an air track. If you push first one cart for 3 s and then the other for the same length of time, exerting equal force on each, the momentum of the light cart is
BLUE: four times
YELLOW: twice
PINK: equal to
GREEN: one-half
PURPLE: one-quarter
the momentum of the heavy cart.
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