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

Important Questions on Centre of Mass, Linear Momentum, Collision

Two persons each of mass are standing at the two extremes of a railroad car of mass resting on a smooth track. The person on left jumps to the left with a horizontal speed 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 with respect to the state of the car before his jump. Find the velocity of the car after both the persons have jumped off.

Figure shows a small block of mass which is started with a speed on the horizontal part of the bigger block of mass 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 of the surface.




Consider a head-on collision between two particles of masses and The initial speeds of the particles are and in the same direction. The collision starts at and the particles interact for a time interval . During the collision, the speed of the first particle varies as .
Find the speed of the second particle as a function of time during the collision.

