Ch 11: Impulse and Momentum
Chapter 11, Problem 11
A proton is traveling to the right at 2.0 x 10^7 m/s. It has a head-on perfectly elastic collision with a carbon atom. The mass of the carbon atom is 12 times the mass of the proton. What are the speed and direction of each after the collision?
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