Chapter 1: Problem 30
Conservation laws, such as conservation of momentum, often give a surprising amount of information about the possible outcome of an experiment. Here is perhaps the simplest example: Two objects of masses \(m_{1}\) and \(m_{2}\) are subject to no external forces. Object 1 is traveling with velocity \(\mathbf{v}\) when it collides with the stationary object \(2 .\) The two objects stick together and move off with common velocity \(\mathbf{v}^{\prime}\). Use conservation of momentum to find \(\mathbf{v}^{\prime}\) in terms of \(\mathbf{v}, m_{1},\) and \(m_{2}\)
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