A uniform circular disc of radius r and mass m slides without rotation on a horizontal frictionless plane .Moving initially with speed v,it collide with an identical disc which is at rest. After collision they move as one rigid body.find final kinetic energy.
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For this question we need to calculate the angular velocity and velocity of the combined mass after collision.
For velocity simply conserve momentum in horizontal direction-
m v = 2 m v ′ , where v ′ is the velocity of the combined system.
Now to find the angular velocity , we will conserve angular momentum along the center of mass on the combined system . This is necessary as the combined body rotates along its c.o.m.
The center of mass of combined body lies on distance of 2 R from the c.o.m of each disc and at a distance of R from c.o.m of disc as shown in figure:
Now first we need to find moment of inertia along the axis of c.o.m of combined body
I = 2 × ( M R 2 + 2 M R 2 ) = 3 M R 2
Now from conservation of angular momentum:
2 M V R = 3 M R 2 × ω
→ ω = 6 R V
Now to total energy of system is kinetic energy + rotational kinetic energy
= 2 1 M V 2 + 2 1 I ( ω ) 2
Now just plug in the values to get amswer which is 6 3