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High-speed stroboscopic photographs show that the head of a golf club of mass 2.00 × 102 ? is traveling at 55.0 ?/? at 30.0° above the horizontal just before it strikes a 46.0 ? golf ball at rest on a tee. After the collision, the club head travels in the same direction at 38.0 ?/?. (a) What are the magnitude and direction of the velocity of the golf ball just after impact? After the impact, the golf ball goes through a projectile motion. When the golf ball reaches its maximum height, it has an elastic collision with a particle of mass 23.0 ? resting on top of a tree. (b) What are the magnitude and direction of the velocity of the golf ball after the collision? (c) What are the magnitude and direction of the particle on the tree after the collision? After the golf ball lands on the ground, it bounces back with a speed 15.0 ?/? at 25.0° above the horizontal. (d) What are the magnitude and direction of the net impulse on the ground?
The impulse 2.03 kg-m/s and direction is 281o counter-clockwise from positive x axis.