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I understand the concept of impulse as the time integral of a force. This
definition remains true regardless of the time interval.
In other cases "an impulse" means a force over a vanishingly small time
interval (like a hammer striking a bowling ball).
These uses of the term impulse are not identical.
The first is well defined, the second does not seem as well defined to me,