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Okay. If I use the conservation form I will need to change my system, correct? So now my system is just one asteroid and my surroundings are the other asteroid. Can I still use the equations I included or will I need to use another definition L_rot and L_trans? And to add to my many questions...

Homework Statement In the figure a spherical non spinning asteroid of mass M = 4E16 kg and radius R = 1.5E4 m moving with speed v1 = 2.4E4 m/s to the right collides with a similar non spinning asteroid moving with speed v2 = 5.9E4 m/s to the left, and they stick together. The impact parameter...

I don't think my professor is that strict with SDs. It is possible though. This is possible but isn't it implied to be going up the y-axis since it is a positive number? Maybe I should have wrote it as a vector: <0,0.9,0>N?

Homework Statement A spring has a relaxed length of 0.17 m, and its stiffness is 15 N/m. The spring sits vertically on a table. You place a block of mass 0.058 kg on the spring and push down on the block until the spring is only 0.11 m long. You hold the block motionless on the compressed...