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Question: A 12kg ball traveling at 5 m/s strikes a stationary ball of 7kg. After the collision the balls are 60 degrees apart, each 30 degrees either side of the original path of the striking ball.
Calculate the speed of both balls after collision?Homework Equations...
Thanks for reply, this is my very first posting; I have noticed online several questions like this do not quote mass. So can I ignore this by simply cancelling out the term 'm' from momentum calculations?
Here is my attempt, I'm following a similar example without mass and also following an...
Question: A 12kg ball traveling at 5 m/s strikes a stationary ball of 7kg. After the collision the balls are 60 degrees apart, each 30 degrees either side of the original path of the striking ball.
Calculate the speed of both balls after collision?
My attempt to split into x,y coordinates...