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Sammy, that page isn't available on Google Books. It looks like it might stop around page 74 unfortunately. Any other leads on where I might be able to find it?

No I definitely didn't mishear him. I brought up this exact point in class and he dispelled is validity. Thank you for confirming my suspicions.

Doc, I worked that out as well and my Professor said that you can't use COM for any parts of the equation if either the X or Y component isn't conserved, is it true?

Homework Statement Having a little trouble with this problem. I've tried a few different manipulations using COM & COE and wasn't able to get it to fit the form. "A block of mass m rests on a wedge of mass M which, in turn, rest on a horizontal table as shown in the figure. All surfaces are...