Two cars, one twice as heavy as the other, are at rest on a horizontal track. A person pushes each car for 5 s. Ignoring friction and assuming equal force exerted on both cars, the momentum of the light car after the push is
BLUE: smaller than
YELLOW: equal to
PINK: larger than
the momentum of the heavy car.
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