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yes it is possible for it to have a negative.
10,000 meters: 1,000 meters in every kilometer.
Assuming both billiard balls have the same mass, conservation of momentum says
where m = mass of both billiard balls, and v₁ and v₂ = their initial velocities, and v₁' and v₂' = their final velocities. The masses are the same so the exact value of m is irrelevant. The first ball has initial speed 5 m/s and the second is at rest, so
After the collision, the first ball has speed 4.35 m/s and is moving at angle of 30° below the original path, so
Then the second ball has final velocity vector
so it moves with speed
at an angle of
or about 60.5° above the original line of motion.
No, Alec has not.
The force due to gravity is the same on all objects, regardless of shape and size. The acceleration caused by this force is 9.81 m/s². So if there are two identical pieces of paper, both will experience an equal force of gravity.
The difference in the papers' flight paths is due to the greater air resistance that the flat paper experiences. If the same experiment were to be repeated in a vacuum chamber, both of the pieces of paper would fall at the same rate