
Two men and are standing on a plank. is at the middle of the plank and is at the left end of the plank. The bottom surface of the plank is smooth. The system is initially at rest and masses are as shown in the figure. and start moving such that the position of remains fixed with respect to ground and meets . Then the point where meets is located at




Important Questions on Centre of Mass, Momentum and Collisions
A small sphere of radius is held against the inner surface of a larger sphere of radius . The masses of large and small spheres are respectively. This arrangement is placed on a horizontal table as shown. There is no friction between any surfaces of contact. The small sphere is now released. The coordinates of the centre of the large sphere when the smaller sphere reaches the other extreme position is :


The diagram shows the velocity-time graph for two masses and that collided head on elastically. Which of the following statements is true?
and moved in the same direction after the collision.
The velocities of and were equal at the mid-time of the collision.
The mass of was greater than the mass of .



A system of two blocks and are connected by an inextensible massless string as shown. The pulley is massless and frictionless. Initially, the system is at rest when a bullet of mass moving with a velocity as shown hits the blockand gets embedded into it. The impulse imparted by tension force to the block of mass is :


