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Description: Glider A is 200 gram and travels at 5 m/s to the right toward glider B which is initially at rest on a straight frictionless level air track. Glider A collides with glider B and after the collision glider B is moving at 0.5 m/s to the right. What is

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Glider A is 200 gram and travels at 5 m/s to the right toward glider B which is initially at rest on a straight frictionless level air track. Glider A collides with glider B and after the collision glider B is moving at 0.5 m/s to the right. What is the mass of glider B?

a)3.8 kg

b)100 g

c)1.5 kg

d)500 g

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Given that,

the mass of glider A is $m_{A} = 200 (g) = 0.2 (k g)$

the initial velocity of glider A is $u_{A} = 5 (m / s)$

the initial velocity of the glider B is $u_{B} = 0 (m / s)$

the final velocity of the glider B is $u_{B} = 0.5 (m / s)$

Let this is an elastic collision.

So if m_B is the mass of glider B, then the final velocity of glider B will be (head-on collision)

$v_{B} = \frac{2 m_{A}}{m_{A} + m_{B}} u_{A}$

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