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A railroad car of mass M is at rest on frictionless rails when a man of mass m starts moving on the car towards the engine. If the car recoils with a speed v backward on the rails, with what velocity is the man approaching the engine?

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A gun is mounted on a railroad car. The mass of the car, the gun, the shells and the operator is 50m, where m is the mass of one shell. If the velocity of the shell with respect to the gun (in its state before firing) is 200 m s-1, what is the recoil speed of the car after the second shot? Neglect friction.
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Two persons each of mass m are standing at the two extremes of a railroad car of mass M resting on a smooth track. The person on left jumps to the left with a horizontal speed u with respect to the state of the car before the jump. Thereafter, the other person jumps to the right, again with the same horizontal speed u with respect to the state of the car before his jump. Find the velocity of the car after both the persons have jumped off.

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Figure shows a small block of mass m which is started with a speed v on the horizontal part of the bigger block of mass M placed on a horizontal floor. The curved part of the surface shown is semicircular. All the surfaces are frictionless. Find the speed of the bigger block when the smaller block reaches the point A of the surface.

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In a typical Indian bugghi (a luxury cart drawn by horses), a wooden plate is fixed on the rear on which one person can sit. A bugghi of mass 200 kg is moving at a speed of 10 km h-1. As it overtakes a school boy walking at a speed of 4 km h-1, the boy sits on the wooden plate. If the mass of the boy is 25 kg, what will be the new velocity of the bugghi?
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A ball of mass 0.50 kg moving at a speed of 5.0 m s-1 collides with another ball of mass 1.0 kg. After the collision, the balls stick together and remain motionless. What was the velocity of the 1.0 kg block before the collision?
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A 60 kg man skating with a speed of 10 m s-1 collides with a 40 kg skater at rest and they cling to each other. Find the loss of kinetic energy during the collision.
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Consider a head-on collision between two particles of masses m1 and m2. The initial speeds of the particles are u1 and u2 in the same direction. The collision starts at t=0 and the particles interact for a time interval Δt. During the collision, the speed of the first particle varies as vt=u1+tΔtv1-u1.

Find the speed of the second particle as a function of time during the collision.

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A bullet of mass m moving at a speed v hits a ball of mass M kept at rest. A small part having mass m' breaks from the ball and sticks to the bullet. The remaining ball is found to move at a speed v1 in the direction of the bullet. Find the velocity of the bullet after the collision.