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Homework Statement
The drawing below shows two laboratory carts (each has a mass of 1.0 kg) X and Y in contact with a compressed exploder spring between them. The mass on cart Y is 2.84 kg, distance A is 12 cm, distance B is 18 cm. What mass must be placed on cart X, such that after the explosion both carts will hit the ends of the track at the same time?
After the explosion has taken place, which of the following statements regarding the kinetic energies, EK, and the magnitudes of the momenta, pi, are correct or incorrect? (Note: The subscripts x and y refer to the carts, not the direction along x or y.)
Ex = 2/3 Ey
px > py
px = py
Ex < Ey
px = py/2
Homework Equations
Final momentum = inital momentum = 0
MxVx + MyVy = 0
T = d/v
The Attempt at a Solution
z = unknown mass on cart x
(1 + z)Vx + (1.00 + 2.84)Vy = 0
T= 12/Vy = -18/Vy so Vx = -18/12 Vy
(1+z) *-18/12 Vy + 3.84 Vy = 0
Vy[(1+z)*-18/12 + 3.84] = 0
-18/12 + -18/12 z + 3.84 = 0
-1.5Z = -2.34
Z = 1.54 kg
After the explosion has taken place, which of the following statements regarding the kinetic energies, EK, and the magnitudes of the momenta, pi, are correct or incorrect? (Note: The subscripts x and y refer to the carts, not the direction along x or y.)
Correct Incorrect Ex = 2/3 Ey
incorrect energy should be the same
Correct Incorrect px > py
not sure: depends on answer in part 1 because p = mv
Correct Incorrect px = py
Incorrect unless Mx = 2.84
Correct Incorrect Ex < Ey
Incorrect energy should be the same
Correct Incorrect px = py/2
