Lorena loves playing with blocks and purchases illegal elastic blocks on the physics black market (because they conserve energy during collisions). In her excitement, she attaches the blue block-1 (1.00 kg) to a cord (50.0 cm long) and then releases it when the cord is horizontal. At the bottom of its path, the blue block strikes a 2.00 kg steel block initially at rest on a frictionless surface. a. Draw a momentum bar diagram for the situation. b. Determine the speeds of the (i) blue block-1 and (ii) red block-2 just after the collision.

Lorena loves playing with blocks and purchases illegal elastic blocks on the physics black market (because they conserve energy during collisions). In her excitement, she attaches the blue block-1 (1.00 kg) to a cord (50.0 cm long) and then releases it when the cord is horizontal. At the bottom of its path, the blue block strikes a 2.00 kg steel block initially at rest on a frictionless surface. a. Draw a momentum bar diagram for the situation. b. Determine the speeds of the (i) blue block-1 and (ii) red block-2 just after the collision.