A dart with a mass of 0.5kg is thrown at 15m/s and sticks into a 1kg apple hanging
on a string. What is the total momentum of the objects before the collision?
A dart with a mass of 0.5kg is thrown at 15m/s and sticks into a 1kg apple hanging
on a string. What is the total momentum of the objects before the collision?
Answer:
Before the collision:
m v1 = .5 kg * 15 m/s = 7.5 kg-m/s
Incidentally, after the collision
(M + m) v2 = 7.5
v2 = 7.5 / (1 + .5) = 5 m/s