After a completely inelastic collision, two objects of the same mass and same initial speed move away together at two-thirds their initial speed. Find the angle between the initial velocities of the objects.

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After a completely inelastic collision, two objects of the same mass and same initial speed move away together at two-thirds their initial speed. Find the angle between the initial velocities of the
objects.
Did you place an x axis along the final path so that the incoming paths are symmetric about the axis? (That decreases the amount of algebra.) Did you assign symbols for the mass, the initial speed,
and angle? Did you find the x components of the initial and final momenta? Did you set the sum of the x components before equal to the x component after?
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Transcribed Image Text:After a completely inelastic collision, two objects of the same mass and same initial speed move away together at two-thirds their initial speed. Find the angle between the initial velocities of the objects. Did you place an x axis along the final path so that the incoming paths are symmetric about the axis? (That decreases the amount of algebra.) Did you assign symbols for the mass, the initial speed, and angle? Did you find the x components of the initial and final momenta? Did you set the sum of the x components before equal to the x component after? Additional Materials eBook
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