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9.4 Exercise 5

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A 5.50-kg bowling ball moving at 9.00 m/s collides with a 0.850-kg bowling pin, which is scattered at an angle of 15.8° to the initial direction of the bowling ball and with a speed of 15.0 m/s.

  1. Calculate the final velocity (magnitude and direction) of the bowling ball.
  2. Is the collision elastic?

OpenStax University Physics Volume 1, 9.4 Types of Collisions, exercise 5

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