Two ice dancers are at rest on the ice, facing each other with their hands together. They push off on each other in order to set each other in motion. The subsequent momentum change (magnitude only) of the two skaters will be ____.


 

• How do the individual momenta values of two objects after an explosive-like interaction compare to each other?
• When an explosive-like impulse occurs between two objects of unequal mass, how do the impulses and momentum changes experienced by the individual objects compare to each other?