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Homework Statement
Picture looks like this:
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(Cue) (White ball) (Black Ball)
Mass: Cue (595g), White Ball (170g), Black Ball (155g)
Question: On the given pool table, the white ball bounces off of the black ball and moves in the direction opposite to its original direction. If the speed of the white ball immediately after the collision is 3.13m/s, then the speed of the black ball immediately after the collision is _______m/s. (Record your three-digit answer)
Homework Equations
Conservation of Momentum
Pi=Pf
The Attempt at a Solution
0=(-3.13m/s)×(170g) + (155g)×V
532.1kgm/s = 155g×V
V= 3.43m/s
Apparently this is not the answer... What am I doing wrong??
4. Keybook Solution
Pi=Pf
MV (1) + MV (2) = MV'(1) + MV'(2)
170g×(3.13m/s) + 0 = 170g×(-0.147m/s) + (155g)V '(2)
V'(2) = 3.59m/s
How do you get (-0.147m/s)?