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An empty rail carof mass 100kg is at rest on the railway track. A boy of mass 40kg running with a speed of 5m/s jumps on the rail car. The speed of the (car + boy )system is how much
Asked by Leenatripathi20 | 14 Sep, 2018, 11:09: PM
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we need to apply conservation of momentum to solve this problem.
 
momentum of the boy before jumping into rail car = 40×5 = 200 kg-m/s
 
momentum of the combined system of boy+rail-car after the boy jumping into rail car = 140×v
where v is speed of cobined system.
 
140×v = 200  or v = 1.43 m/s
Answered by Thiyagarajan K | 15 Sep, 2018, 11:38: AM
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