a. What is the speed of the combined mass system after the collision?
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Transcribed Image Text:2. A 'small' asteroid with a mass of 800kg is moving through deep space with a constant velocity
of 50 m/s. Suddenly the small asteroid collides with a large asteroid possessing a mass of
8,000kg. The large asteroid was initially at rest and the collision causes the small mass to
become completely embedded within the larger one so that they are now one combined mass.
a. What is the speed of the combined mass system after the collision?
b. How many Joules of energy were lost due to the collision?
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