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Posted by Bob on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 6:34pm.

A 18 kg object and a 26 kg object are connected by a massless compressed spring and rest on a frictionless table. After the spring is released, the object with the smaller mass has a velocity of 2 m/s to the left.
What is the velocity of the object with the larger mass?

Physics - Damon, Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 7:52pm
Total momentum remains zero.
Physics - Bob, Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 10:53pm
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