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Particle A and B lie along same straight line. Mass of particle A is 2.5 2.5 kg and of B is 22.5 22.5 kg . Particle A is travelling with intial velocity u = 375 375 m/s while B is at rest. Then after sometime they both collide head on elastically. The total linear momentum of system is conserved. Then find the velocity of particle B after collision in m/s .


The answer is 75.

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1 solution

Tom Engelsman
Dec 3, 2020

Let u u' and v v be the post-collision velocities of m A m_{A} and m B m_{B} respectively. We require conservation of kinetic energy and linear momentum for this elastic collision according to:

1 2 m A u 2 = 1 2 m A u 2 + 1 2 m B v 2 \frac{1}{2}m_{A}u^2 = \frac{1}{2}m_{A}u'^{2} + \frac{1}{2}m_{B}v^2 (i)

m A u = m A u + m B v m_{A}u = m_{A}u' + m_{B}v (ii).

If we solve (ii) for u u' and substitute this expression into (i), we obtain:

1 2 m A u 2 = 1 2 m A ( m A u m B v m A ) 2 + 1 2 m B v 2 \frac{1}{2}m_{A}u^2 = \frac{1}{2}m_{A}(\frac{m_{A}u - m_{B}v}{m_{A}})^{2} + \frac{1}{2}m_{B}v^2 (iii)

and solving (iii) for v v gives:

v = 2 m A m A + m B u = ( 2 ) ( 2.5 ) 2.5 + 22.5 375 = 75 m / s . v = \frac{2m_{A}}{m_{A}+m_{B}} \cdot u = \frac{(2)(2.5)}{2.5+22.5} \cdot 375 = \boxed{75} m/s.

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