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dlinn [17]
3 years ago
14

Tubby and his twin brother Libby have a combined mass of 200 kg and are zooming along in a 100 kg amusement park bumper car at 1

0 m/s. They bump into flubbys bumper car which is stationary. Flubby is 25 kg in mass and his car is also 100 kg in mass. After the elastic collision, tubby and Lubby continue to move in the same direction but their speed is lessened from 10 m/s to 4.12 m/s. How fast is flubbys car moving?
Physics
1 answer:
harkovskaia [24]3 years ago
8 0

Answer: 14.1 m/s

Explanation:

We can solve this with the Conservation of Linear Momentum principle, which states the initial momentum p_{i} (before the elastic collision) must be equal to the final momentum p_{f} (after the elastic collision):

p_{i}=p_{f} (1)

Being:

p_{i}=m_{1}V_{i} + m_{2}U_{i}

p_{f}=m_{1}V_{f} + m_{2}U_{f}

Where:

m_{1}=200 kg +100 kg=300 kg is the combined mass of Tubby and Libby with the car

V_{i}=10 m/s is the velocity of Tubby and Libby with the car before the collision

m_{2}=25 kg + 100 kg=125 kg is the combined mass of Flubby with its car

U_{i}=0 m/s is the velocity of Flubby with the car before the collision

V_{f}=4.12 m/s is the velocity of Tubby and Libby with the car after the collision

U_{f} is the velocity of Flubby with the car after the collision

So, we have the following:

m_{1}V_{i} + m_{2}U_{i}=m_{1}V_{f} + m_{2}U_{f} (2)

Finding U_{f}:

U_{f}=\frac{m_{1}(V_{i}-V_{f})}{m_{2}} (3)

U_{f}=\frac{300 kg(10 m/s-4.12 m/s)}{125 kg} (4)

Finally:

U_{f}=14.1 m/s

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