A 340‐g air track cart traveling at 1.25 m/s suddenly collides with a stationary 300‐g cart.
a. If the collision is perfectly inelastic, what is the speed of the carts just after the collision?
b. Regarding the situation described in part a) what is the total kinetic energy of the system
before the collision? What is the total kinetic energy of the system after the collision?
What fraction of the kinetic energy is lost during the collision? What happened to the
kinetic energy that was “lost”?
c. If the collision is elastic, what is the speed of the 300‐g cart just after the collision?
d. If the collision is elastic, what is the speed of the 340‐g cart just after the collision?
e. Regarding the situation described in parts c and d, what is the total kinetic energy of the
system before the collision? What is the total kinetic energy of the system after the
collision? What fraction of the kinetic energy is lost during the collision?
Being annoyed with his banter, Taylor gives josh a shove.
a. If Taylor is moving 5 m/s after the shove, how fast is Josh moving?
b. If the shove lasted for 0.5 seconds, what was the magnitude of Taylor’s acceleration?
c. What was the magnitude of the force on Taylor?
d. What was the magnitude of the force on Josh?
2) A 340‐g air track cart traveling at 1.25 m/s suddenly collides with a stationary 300‐g cart.
a. If the collision is perfectly inelastic, what is the speed of the carts just after the collision?
b. Regarding the situation described in part a) what is the total kinetic energy of the system
before the collision? What is the total kinetic energy of the system after the collision?
What fraction of the kinetic energy is lost during the collision? What happened to the
kinetic energy that was “lost”?
c. If the collision is elastic, what is the speed of the 300‐g cart just after the collision?
d. If the collision is elastic, what is the speed of the 340‐g cart just after the collision?
e. Regarding the situation described in parts c and d, what is the total kinetic energy of the
system before the collision? What is the total kinetic energy of the system after the
collision? What fraction of the kinetic energy is lost during the collision?