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Grade 9Mechanics

A shell of mass 40kg moving with a velocity of 80m/s explodes and bursts into two fragments of masses 32kg and 8kg . if the latter comes to rest, velocity of the former is

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7 Years agoGrade 9
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7 Years ago
As the external force is zero so we can apply conservation of momentum law
So
40*80 = 32*v + 8*0
Then v = 100 m/s
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