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Classical Mechanics Level pending

An explosion in the space breaks an object (originally in repose) in two fragments. The first fragment of mass m 1 m_1 has two times the kinetic energy of the fragment of mass m 2 m_2 . m 1 m_1 and m 2 m_2 are related by:

m 1 = m 2 4 m_1=\frac{m_2}{4} m 1 = 4 m 2 m_1=4m_2 m 1 = m 2 2 m_1=\frac{m_2}{2} m 1 = m 2 m_1=m_2 m 1 = 2 m 2 m_1=2m_2

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1 solution

Rudraksh Shukla
May 3, 2016

Let the velocity of m 1 m_{1} be v 1 v_{1} and the velocity of m 2 m_{2} be v 2 v_{2} . So what we have here is, 1 2 m 1 v 1 2 = 2 × 1 2 m 2 v 2 2 \frac{1}{2} m_{1}v_{1}^2 = 2 \times \frac{1}{2} m_{2}v_{2}^2 m 1 v 1 2 = 2 m 2 v 2 2 \Rightarrow m_{1}v_{1}^2=2m_{2}v_{2}^2 Also from since no external forces are acting on our system other than the internal force which broke the object (explosion) therefore we can conserve the momentum of the object. Since object is initially at rest and we are assuming that final masses went in opposite directions then we shall have, 0 = m 1 v 1 m 2 v 2 0=m_{1 }v_{1 }-m_{2 }v_{2 } m 1 v 1 = m 2 v 2 \Rightarrow m_{1 }v_{1 }=m_{2 }v_{2 } Solve both equations to get m 2 = 2 m 1 m_{2}=2m_{1}

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