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Homework Statement
A particle with mass M at rest decays into two particles with masses ma=0.15M and mb=0.65M .
i) Discuss the relative directions and magnitudes of the momenta of these two particles in the centre of mass reference frame.
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The Attempt at a Solution
What's the centre of mass reference frame?! Isn't there really only one relevant frame here?
As for the relative directions - just in opposite directions, by conservation of momentum? And with the same magnitude of momentum? Although them having the same magnitude of momentum seems weird, because that would be just like Newtonian mechanics, and using that never seems to work anymore ;)
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