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A car crashes into a large tree that does not move. The car goes from 30 m/s to 0 in 1.3 m. (a) What impulse is applied to the driver by the seatbelt, assuming he follows the same motion as the car? (b) What is the average force applied to the driver by the seatbelt?

a. ( 2.1 × 10 3 kg · m/s ) i ^ , b. ( 24 × 10 3 N ) i ^

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Two hockey players approach each other head on, each traveling at the same speed v i . They collide and get tangled together, falling down and moving off at a speed v i / 5 . What is the ratio of their masses?

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You are coasting on your 10-kg bicycle at 15 m/s and a 5.0-g bug splatters on your helmet. The bug was initially moving at 2.0 m/s in the same direction as you. If your mass is 60 kg, (a) what is the initial momentum of you plus your bicycle? (b) What is the initial momentum of the bug? (c) What is your change in velocity due to the collision with the bug? (d) What would the change in velocity have been if the bug were traveling in the opposite direction?

a. ( 1.1 × 10 3 kg · m/s ) i ^ , b. ( 0.010 kg · m/s ) i ^ , c. ( 0.00093 m/s ) i ^ , d. ( 0.0012 m/s ) i ^

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A load of gravel is dumped straight down into a 30 000-kg freight car coasting at 2.2 m/s on a straight section of a railroad. If the freight car’s speed after receiving the gravel is 1.5 m/s, what mass of gravel did it receive?

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Two carts on a straight track collide head on. The first cart was moving at 3.6 m/s in the positive x direction and the second was moving at 2.4 m/s in the opposite direction. After the collision, the second car continues moving in its initial direction of motion at 0.24 m/s. If the mass of the second car is 5.0 times that of the first, what is the mass and final velocity of the first car?

0.10 kg, ( 130 m/s ) i ^

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A 100-kg astronaut finds himself separated from his spaceship by 10 m and moving away from the spaceship at 0.1 m/s. To get back to the spaceship, he throws a 10-kg tool bag away from the spaceship at 5.0 m/s. How long will he take to return to the spaceship?

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Derive the equations giving the final speeds for two objects that collide elastically, with the mass of the objects being m 1 and m 2 and the initial speeds being v 1,i and v 2,i = 0 (i.e., second object is initially stationary).

v 1,f = v 1,i m 1 m 2 m 1 + m 2 , v 2,f = v 1,i 2 m 1 m 1 + m 2

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Repeat the preceding problem for the case when the initial speed of the second object is nonzero.

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A child sleds down a hill and collides at 5.6 m/s into a stationary sled that is identical to his. The child is launched forward at the same speed, leaving behind the two sleds that lock together and slide forward more slowly. What is the speed of the two sleds after this collision?

2.8 m/s

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For the preceding problem, find the final speed of each sled for the case of an elastic collision.

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A 90-kg football player jumps vertically into the air to catch a 0.50-kg football that is thrown essentially horizontally at him at 17 m/s. What is his horizontal speed after catching the ball?

0.094 m/s

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Three skydivers are plummeting earthward. They are initially holding onto each other, but then push apart. Two skydivers of mass 70 and 80 kg gain horizontal velocities of 1.2 m/s north and 1.4 m/s southeast, respectively. What is the horizontal velocity of the third skydiver, whose mass is 55 kg?

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Source:  OpenStax, University physics volume 1. OpenStax CNX. Sep 19, 2016 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col12031/1.5
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