Posted by Sarah on Monday, February 8, 2010 at 8:08pm.
I had thought that to do this, you'd add the momentum of the two and set it equal the combined mass to find the velocity.
.0160(396)+3.95(0)=3.966(V)
V=1.59m/s
Then I set up a triangle to try to find the distance from the table and used V as the c value in the pythagorean theorem.
1.06^2+x^2=1.59^2
x=1.19m
But the book says that isn't correct. What am I doing wrong?
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