style=”background-color:rgb(231,247,247);color:rgb(51,51,51);”>compact SUV is moving along a straight highway at 12.0 m/s. A large car, with mass M = 2100 kg and speed V = 19.5 m/s has its center of mass 40.0 m ahead of the center of mass of the SUV.
A 1200-kg
style=”background-color:rgb(231,247,247);color:rgb(51,51,51);”>compact SUV is moving along a straight highway at 12.0 m/s. A large car, with mass M = 2100 kg and speed V = 19.5 m/s has its center of mass 40.0 m ahead of the center of mass of the SUV.
Suppose the car had been traveling to the left with speed 19.5 m/s, instead of to the right (with the SUV’s motion unchanged). In such a case, the car would of course be in the other lane of the highway so as to avoid a head-on collision. What would the speed of the center of mass of the system have been in such a case?
For the situation as described in the previous Part, what would be the magnitude of the total momentum of the two-vehicle system?