A car with mass 2.00 x 103 kg traveling west with a speed of 28.0 m/s collides at an intersection with a 2.50 x 103-kg van traveling north at a speed of 20.0 m/s.  The vehicles undergo a perfectly inelastic collision (that is, they stick together) and assume that friction between the vehicles and the road can be neglected.   Question 35 What is the magnitude of the momentum of the car before collision?     Question 36 In what direction is the momentum of the car? BLANK-1   Question 37   What is the magnitude of the momentum of the van before collision?

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A car with mass 2.00 x 103 kg traveling west with a speed of 28.0 m/s collides at an intersection with a 2.50 x 103-kg van traveling north at a speed of 20.0 m/s.  The vehicles undergo a perfectly inelastic collision (that is, they stick together) and assume that friction between the vehicles and the road can be neglected.

 
  1. Question 35

    What is the magnitude of the momentum of the car before collision?

     
     
  2. Question 36

    In what direction is the momentum of the car? BLANK-1

     
  3. Question 37
     

    What is the magnitude of the momentum of the van before collision?

     
     
  4. Question 38
     

    In what direction is the momentum of the van? 

     
  5. Question 39
     

    Determine the magnitude of the combined momentum of the car and van.

     
     
  6. Question 40

    What angle is the combined momentum north of west?

     
     
  7. Question 41

    Determine the speed of the stuck vehicles after the collision

     
     
  8. Question 42

    At what angle, expressed in terms of north of west, do the stuck vehicles move?

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