A 20 g ball of clay traveling east at 2.0 m/s collides

Chapter 11, Problem 11.106

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A 20 g ball of clay traveling east at 2.0 m/s collides with a 30 g ball of clay traveling 30 south of west at 1.0 m/s. What are the speed and direction of the resulting 50 g blob of clay?

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QUESTION:

A 20 g ball of clay traveling east at 2.0 m/s collides with a 30 g ball of clay traveling 30 south of west at 1.0 m/s. What are the speed and direction of the resulting 50 g blob of clay?

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The diagram of the speeds of the ball 1 and 2 is given below:

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The initial velocity of mass 1 is,

                       

The initial velocity of the mass 2 is,

                     

For, and the velocity of the mass 2 becomes,

                         

 

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