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Homework Statement Three balls of masses m1, m2 and m3 are suspended in a horizontal line by light wires and are almost touching. The mass m1 is given a horizontal velocity v so that it collides head-on with the mass m2. Find an expression for the final kinetic energy of m3? What value of m2...

Thank you so much, that makes sense now! I think I was trying to make it more complicated than it needed to be.

Homework Statement A more sophisticated weighing machine contains two springs. The effect of these is that the machine is more sensitive to masses less than some fixed value M0 than it is to greater masses. The equilibrium displacement is alpha1*M when M<M0, and (alpha2+c) when M≥M0 , where...