An experiment involving perfect inelastic collision is conducted: two carts with velcro strips are placed on...

An experiment involving perfect inelastic collision is conducted: two carts with velcro strips are placed on a track attached to a motion sensor. One cart is stationary and the other is pushed slightly towards the cart such that it attaches to the cart that is stationary (via. velcro). Given the following data of the experiment, what is the expected final velocity of the moving object? Compare the expected final velocity to the actual measured one, then determine what the percentage error of it is.

Trial	Mass One (Moving Cart)	Mass Two (Stationary Cart)	Initial Velocity	Final Velocity
1	511 g	506 g	0.1974 m/s	0.1564

For some reason, I keep getting 0.09918525 m/s, but the percentage error is too high and becomes 56%. What am I doing wrong? Please show work, thank you!

Expert Solution

SInce the question doesn,t mention about the frition of the track, lets say its frictionless as we know that friction will only decrease the velocity not increase it and we getting lower velocity than whats mentioned.

Also, We must know that the Initial velocity of cart1 (Moving one) will decrease significantly as it is colliding with a mass which is almost equal is mass. So, we are expecting the velocity of total mass after collision to be almost half as the mass is getting doulbed .

Lets see what we are getting-

genius_generous answered 8 months ago

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