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Physic120 Perfect Elastic Collision

Overview

Red car has a mass m = 5.79 g and blue car has a mass m= 5.13 g. They head towards each other along the x-axis moving in

opposite directions for a head-on collision. Red car comes in with a speed of up = 8.73 m/s moving to the right. Blue car is moving to the left heading towards red car with the same magnitude of momentum as red car. The collision is perfectly elastic.

1/ Find initial speed of red car and blue car?

2/ Find final speed of blue car?