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    Exploding Pumpkin: Solving for Third Fragment's Velocity, Direction, and Mass

    There is no initial momentum
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    Exploding Pumpkin: Solving for Third Fragment's Velocity, Direction, and Mass

    Here’s a diagram
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    Exploding Pumpkin: Solving for Third Fragment's Velocity, Direction, and Mass

    Homework Statement A pumpkin of mass 3.30kg at rest on a smooth frictionless plane, explodes into 3 pieces in the horizontal plane. A .50kg piece flies to the North at 3.2m/s. A 1.4kg piece flies off (SW) at 4.1m/s. What is the speed, direction and mass of the third piece? Homework Equations...