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9.7 Exercise 32

Avg difficulty 2.5

Two identical billiard balls collide. The first one is initially traveling at (2.2m/s)i^−(0.4m/s)j^\left(2.2 \text{m}/\text{s}\right) \hat{i} - \left(0.4 \text{m}/\text{s}\right) \hat{j} and the second one at −(1.4m/s)i^+(2.4m/s)j^− \left(1.4 \text{m}/\text{s}\right) \hat{i} + \left(2.4 \text{m}/\text{s}\right) \hat{j}. Suppose they collide when the center of ball 1 is at the origin and the center of ball 2 is at the point (2R,0)\left(2 R , 0\right) where R is the radius of the balls. What is the final velocity of each ball?

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