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Hello! thank you for your reply. Let's see: The x-component is just linear momentum (mv) y and z components are zero before the collision. Conservation of momentum tells me that the momentum before the collision should be the same after collision, so overall the whole momentum should be (mv)...

Homework Statement The professor very generally created a very simple conceptual problem as a basis for harder ones, but I don't understand how to answer it. A piece of clay, with mass (m) and speed (v) collides with a motionless stick of length L (with uniform mass density and total...