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Adding Mass to a Moving System
11. Momentum & Impulse / Adding Mass to a Moving System / Problem 1

A humanitarian helicopter of total mass 11 500 kg (pilots and food boxes) releases vertically a 150 kg box of food. The helicopter is flying at a constant speed of 45 m/s in the x-direction. Find the box's velocity immediately after it was released.

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