A 16.0kg canoe moving to the left at 12.5m/s makes an elastic head-on collision with a 14.0kg raft moving to the right at 16.0m/
1 answer:
The canoe is moving at 14.1 m/s to the right after the collision.
Explanation:
According to the law of conservation of momentum, in absence of external forces the total momentum of the system must be conserved before and after the collision. So we can write:
where:
is the mass of the canoe
is the initial velocity of canoe (we take right as positive direction, and since the canoe is moving to the left, its velocity is negative)
is the final velocity of the canoe
is the mass of the raft
is the initial velocity of the raft
is the final velocity of the raft
Re-arranging the equation and substituting the values, we find: the final velocity of the canoe:
So, the canoe is moving at 14.1 m/s to the right after the collision.
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