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9.7 Exercise 22

Avg difficulty 2.5

Two carts on a straight track collide head on. The first cart was moving at 3.6 m/s in the positive x direction and the second was moving at 2.4 m/s in the opposite direction. After the collision, the second car continues moving in its initial direction of motion at 0.24 m/s. If the mass of the second car is 5.0 times that of the first, what is the final velocity of the first car?

OpenStax University Physics Volume 1, 9.7 Rocket Propulsion, exercise 22

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