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A railroad car moving at a speed of 3.20 m/s overtakes, collides, and couples with two coupled railroad cars moving in the same direction at 1.20 m/s. All cars have a mass of mass 1.10 105 kg. Determine the following.
(a) speed of the three coupled cars after the collision____ (Give your answer to at least two decimal places.) m/s
(b) kinetic energy lost in the collision ___ J
2. A cue ball at rest on a frictionless pool table is hit dead center by a pool stick, giving it an impulse of +0.55 N · s. The ball slides (the combination of hitting the ball dead center and no friction allows this to happen) along the table and makes a head-on elastic collision with another pool ball. If both pool balls have a mass of 0.166 kg, determine the velocity of the second ball the instant after the collision. (Indicate the direction with the sign of your answer.) m/s