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Homework Statement
A firecracker is tossed straight up into the air. It explodes into three pieces of equal mass just as it reaches the highest point. Two pieces move off at 130 m/s at right angles to each other. How fast is the third piece moving?
Homework Equations
P = m*v
Pi = Pf
The Attempt at a Solution
So the initial momentum is 0 because it is not moving when it explodes, so doesn't that mean that final momentum is 0 because of the conservation of momentum? I tried this, but I'm not getting the right answerl...