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Starting with an initial speed of $5.00 \mathrm{m} / \mathrm{s}$ at a height of $0.300 \mathrm{m}$, a 1.50-kg ball swings downward and strikes a 4.60-kg ball that is at rest, as the drawing shows. (a) Using the principle of conservation of mechanical energy, find the speed of the $1.50-\mathrm{kg}$ ball just before impact. (b) Assuming that the collision is elastic, find the velocities (magnitude and direction) of both balls just after the collision. (c) How high does each ball swing after the collision, ignoring air resistance?

          Starting with an initial speed of $5.00 \mathrm{m} / \mathrm{s}$ at a height of $0.300 \mathrm{m}$, a 1.50-kg ball swings downward and strikes a 4.60-kg ball that is at rest, as the drawing shows. (a) Using the principle of conservation of mechanical energy, find the speed of the $1.50-\mathrm{kg}$ ball just before impact.
(b) Assuming that the collision is elastic, find the velocities (magnitude and direction) of both balls just after the collision. (c) How high does each ball swing after the collision, ignoring air resistance?
        
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Starting with an initial speed of $5.00 \mathrm{m} / \mathrm{s}$ at a height of $0.300 \mathrm{m}$, a 1.50-kg ball swings downward and strikes a 4.60-kg ball that is at rest, as the drawing shows. (a) Using the principle of conservation of mechanical energy, find the speed of the $1.50-\mathrm{kg}$ ball just before impact. (b) Assuming that the collision is elastic, find the velocities (magnitude and direction) of both balls just after the collision. (c) How high does each ball swing after the collision, ignoring air resistance?
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00:01 All right, so let's say we have a ball with a mass of, called m1, 1 .5 kilograms, and it swings down from a height difference of three meters with an initial speed of five meters a second and strikes another ball that has a mass of 4 .6 kilograms.
00:25 And so we want to know what is the speed of the first ball just before context.
00:29 So what we'll have is 1 half mv final squared minus v initial squared.
00:36 That's equal to the gain or the loss of potential energy with a negative sign.
00:42 So it's really just mgh.
00:44 So the masses cancel.
00:45 We'll see that our final speed is going to be our initial speed squared plus 2gh.
00:53 So if you do that, 25 plus 19 .6 times 3.
00:57 And then we take the square root should be 9 .15.
01:01 Meters a second.
01:03 And then part b, we want to assume that there's an elastic collision between the two.
01:09 And so we want to find out what is the velocity of both balls after the collision.
01:14 And so what we'll have is v1 prime.
01:17 You know, if you look at ordinary elastic collisions, this will be m1 minus m2 over m1 plus m2 times v1.
01:27 Since our other ball is stationary, we're not going to have any other numbers here.
01:30 And so this comes out to negative 0 .1 meters a second approximately and then v2 prime this is just going to be um 2 times m1 over m1 plus m2 times v1 and so that's about 9 .05 meters a second um and so then from there let's see am i missing anything else i don't think so so um now we want to find out how high does each ball swing after the collision...
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