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Fig. 10-3. Schematic view of action-reaction experiment with equal |
masses. |
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VIEW FROM VIEW FROM |
CENTER OF MASS MOVING CAR |
(CAR VELOCITY = —v) |
v => -——v 2v-> 0 |
BEFORE COLLISION |
v=0 V_> |
AFTER COLLISION |
Fig. 10-4. TWo views of an inelastic collision between equal masses. |
Now the next thing we would like to fñgure out is what happens in a less |
simple situation. Suppose we have ÿwo equal masses, one moving with velocity 0 |
and the other standing still, and they collide and stick; what is goïing to happen? |
There is a mass 2mm altogether when we are fñnished, drifting with an unknown |
velocity. What velocity? 'That is the problem. 'To find the answer, we make the |
assumption that if we ride along in a car, physics will look the same as if we |
are standing still. We start with the knowledge that two equal masses, moving |
in opposite directions with equal speeds 0, will stop dead when they collide. |
Now suppose that while this happens, we are riding by in an automobile, at a |
velocity —ø. Then what does ít look like? Since we are riding along with one |
of the two masses which are coming together, that one appears to us to have |
zero velocity. The other mass, however, going the other way with velocity , will |
appear to be coming toward us at a velocity 20 (Eig. 10-4). Finally, the combined |
masses after collision will seem to be passing by with velocity 0. We therefore |
conclude that an object with velocity 2u, hitting an equal one at rest, will end |
up with velocity 0, or what is mathematically exactly the same, an object with |
velocity œ hitting and sticking to one at rest will produce an object moving with |
velocity 0/2. Note that if we multiply the mass and the velocity beforehand and |
add them together, mo + 0, we get the same answer as when we multiply the |
mass and the velocity of everything afterwards, 2w times 0/2. So that tells us |
what happens when a mass of velocity 0 hits one standing still. |
In exactly the same manner we can deduce what happens when equal objects |
having am two velocities hit each other. |
Suppose we have two equal bodies with velocities ø¡ and 0s, respectively, |
which collide and stick together. What is their velocity 0 after the collision? |
Again we ride by in an automobile, say at velocity 0a, so that one body appears |
to be at rest. The other then appears to have a velocity 0 — 0a, and we have |
the same case that we had before. When it is all ñnished they will be moving |
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VIEW FROM. “LAB” VIEW FROM CAR |
VỊ va VỊ — Vạ= 0 |
BEFORE COLLISION |
v->~ 1/2(vị — v›)-> |
AFTER COLLISION |
Fig. 10-5. Two views of another inelastic collision between equal |
masses. |
ab 2(0ị — 0s) with respect to the car. What then is the acbual speed on the |
ground? |
TEis ø = 3(0Ị — 02) + 0a or š(0 + 92) (Fig. 10-5). Again we note that |
T0 -Ƒ tmuua = 2m(01 + 0a) /2. (10.6) |
'Thus, using this principle, we can analyze any kind of collision in which Ewo |
bodies oŸ equal mass hit each other and stick. In fact, although we have worked |
only in one dimension, we can fñnd out a great deal about mụuch more complicated |
collisions by imagining that we are riding by ín a car in some oblique direction. |
'The prineciple is the same, but the details get somewhat complicated. |
In order to test experimentally whether an object moving with velocity 0, |
colliding with an equal one at rest, forrms an object moving with velocity 0/2, |
we may perform the following experiment with our air-trough apparatus. We |
place in the trough three equally massive objects, two of which are initially joined |
together with our explosive cylinder device, the third being very near to but |
slightly separated from these and provided with a sticky bumper so that it will |
stick to another object which hits it. Now, a moment after the explosion, we have |
two objects of mass w moving with equal and opposite velocities ø. ÀA moment |
after that, one of these collides with the third object and makes an objecE of |
mass 2n moving, so we believe, with velocity 0/2. How do we test whether it |
1s really 0/2? By arranging the initial positions oŸ the masses on the trough so |
that the distances to the ends are not equal, but are in the ratio 2: 1. Thus our |
first mass, which continues to move with velocity 0, should cover twice as much |
distance in a given tỉme as the 6wo which are sbuck together (allowing for the |
small distance travelled by the second object before ¡it collided with the third). |
'The mass ?n and the mass 2n should reach the ends at the same time, and when |
we try it, we find that they do (Fig. 10-6). |
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NZA — = |
[+^—2D+A——>Lm | m ][ m ]<—D_—>{Œ] |
~= —v v> 0 |
HD^~—22 Lm Lm ]}~—D->#¬ |
"=. vi |
LHm_] L_2m _W] |
Fig. 10-6. An experiment to verify that a mass m. with velocIty œ |
striking a mass mm, with zero velocity gives 2w with velocity 0/2. |
'The next problem that we want to work out is what happens If we have two |
diferent masses. Let us take a mass rm and a mass 2m and apply our explosive |
Interaction. What will happen then? Tf, as a result of the explosion, ?nw mmoves |
with velocity 0, with what velocity does 2n move? “The experiment we have |
just done may be repeated with zero separation between the second and third |
masses, and when we try it we get the same result, namely, the reacting masses |
m and 2m attain velocities —u and 0/2. Thus the direct reaction between ?m |
and 2m gives the same result as the symmetrical reaction between rn and m, |
followed by a collision between rn and a third mass ?m in which they stick together. |
Purthermore, we find that the masses rnm and 2n returning from the ends of the |
trough, with their velocities (nearly) exactly reversed, sbop dead ïf they stick |
together. |
Now the next question we may ask is this. What will happen iIÝ a mass rn |
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