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Two titanium spheres approach each other head on with the same speed and collide elastically. After the collision one of the spheres whose mass is 300 g remains at rest (a) what is the mass of the other sphere? (b) What is the speed of the two-sphere center of mass if the initial speed of each sphere is 2.0 m/s?

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Elastic collisions are collisions in which both momentum and kinetic energy are conserved. The total system kinetic energy before the collision equals the total system kinetic energy after the collision. If total kinetic energy is not conserved, then the ...

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