You hold glider A of mass 0.125 kg and glider B of mass 0.375 kg at rest on an air track with a compressed spring of negligible mass between them. When you release the gliders, the spring pushes them apart. (a) Once the gliders are no longer in contact with the spring, glider A is moving to the right at 0.600 m/s. What is the velocity (magnitude and direction) of glider B at this time? (b) Glider A moving to the right at 0.600 m/s then collides head-on with a third glider C of mass 0.750 kg that is moving to the left at 0.400 m/s. After this collision, glider C is moving to the left at 0.150 m/s. What is the velocity (magnitude and direction) of glider A after this collision?
You hold glider A of mass 0.125 kg and glider B of mass
0.375 kg at rest on an air track with a compressed spring of negligible
mass between them. When you release the gliders, the spring pushes
them apart. (a) Once the gliders are no longer in contact with the spring,
glider A is moving to the right at 0.600 m/s. What is the velocity (magnitude
and direction) of glider B at this time? (b) Glider A moving to the
right at 0.600 m/s then collides head-on with a third glider C of mass
0.750 kg that is moving to the left at 0.400 m/s. After this collision,
glider C is moving to the left at 0.150 m/s. What is the velocity (magnitude
and direction) of glider A after this collision?
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