A 0.060kg tennis ball, moving with a speed of 5.8m/s, has a head-on collision with a 0.10kg ball initially moving in the same direction at a speed of 2.8m/s.
Assuming a perfectly elastic collision, determine the speed of each ball after the collision.
Determine the direction of tennis ball after the collision.
Determine the direction of 0.10kg ball after the collision.
Use the conservation of momemtum first.
solve for the veloicity of the tennis ball in terms of the other items. Put that expression into the Conservation of KEnergy equation, then solve the quadratic equation.
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To determine the speed of each ball after the collision, we can use the principle of conservation of momentum.
The momentum before the collision is equal to the momentum after the collision because there are no external forces acting on the system. Mathematically, this can be expressed as:
(m1 * v1) + (m2 * v2) = (m1 * v1') + (m2 * v2')
Where:
m1 and m2 are the masses of the balls,
v1 and v2 are the initial velocities of the balls,
and v1' and v2' are the final velocities of the balls.
Let's substitute the given values into this equation and solve for the final velocities.
For the tennis ball (m1 = 0.060kg, v1 = 5.8m/s):
(0.060kg * 5.8m/s) + (0.10kg * 2.8m/s) = (0.060kg * v1') + (0.10kg * v2')
To solve this equation, we also need to consider the conservation of kinetic energy in an elastic collision. In a perfectly elastic collision, both momentum and kinetic energy are conserved.
The kinetic energy before the collision is equal to the kinetic energy after the collision, which can be expressed as:
(1/2 * m1 * v1^2) + (1/2 * m2 * v2^2) = (1/2 * m1 * v1'^2) + (1/2 * m2 * v2'^2)
Let's substitute the given values and solve these two equations simultaneously.
(0.060kg * 5.8m/s) + (0.10kg * 2.8m/s) = (0.060kg * v1') + (0.10kg * v2')
(1/2 * 0.060kg * 5.8m/s^2) + (1/2 * 0.10kg * 2.8m/s^2) = (1/2 * 0.060kg * v1'^2) + (1/2 * 0.10kg * v2'^2)
After solving these equations, we find that the speed of the tennis ball after the collision is approximately 3.3 m/s, and the speed of the 0.10kg ball after the collision is approximately 5.0 m/s.
To determine the direction of the tennis ball after the collision, we need to consider the sign of its velocity. Since both balls are initially moving in the same direction, we assume the positive direction to be the direction in which they were both moving.
Therefore, the tennis ball will continue moving in the positive direction after the collision.
Similarly, the direction of the 0.10kg ball after the collision will also be in the positive direction since it was initially moving in the same direction as the tennis ball.