A 1000 kg car traveling north at 15 m/s collides with a 2000 kg trucktraveling east at 10 m/s. The occupants, wearing seat belts, are uninjured,but the two vehicles move away from the impact point as one.The insurance adjustor asks you to find the velocity of the wreckagejust after impact. What is your answer?
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A 1000 kg car traveling north at 15 m/s collides with a 2000 kg truck
traveling east at 10 m/s. The occupants, wearing seat belts, are uninjured,
but the two vehicles move away from the impact point as one.
The insurance adjustor asks you to find the velocity of the wreckage
just after impact. What is your answer?
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