Homework Help: Physics

Posted by Laureen on Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 7:32am.

Two cars are travelling in the same direction along a street. Car A collides with Car B and they lock together. Calculate tgeur velocity after the collision.

Before: Car A: mass of 1001kg.
Velocity of 12m/s
Car B: mass of 1200kg
Velocity of 10m/s
After: V=?

Physics - bobpursley, Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 8:10am
momentum is conserved.

original momentum=final mometum
MassA*Va+MassB*Vb=(MassA+MassB)V

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