Question
A spherical ball of mass 0.3kg moving with velocity 1.2m/s on a smooth horizontal table collides elastically with another ball of mass 0.15kg at rest. Assuming the collision to be perfectly elastic, find the speed of the two balls after collision.
Solution
Given,
Mass of the first body,
Mass of the second body,
Initial velocity,
Final velocity,
Let and
be the velocities of two bodies after collision.
Therefore, using conservation of momentum and kinetic energy, we have
...(1)
By conservation of kinetic energy,
On solving (1) and (2), we get
and
v1 and v2 is the required speed of the two balls after collision.