5 Throughout this question it may be assumed that there are no resistances to motion.
Model trucks A and B, with masses 5 kg and 3 kg respectively, rest on a set of straight, horizontal rails.
Truck A is given an impulse of 3.8 Ns towards B .
- Calculate the initial speed of A.
Truck A collides directly with B. After the collision, B moves with a speed of \(0.6 \mathrm {~ms} ^ { - 1 }\).
- Determine
- the velocity of A after the collision,
- the kinetic energy lost due to the collision.
- B continues to move with a speed of \(0.6 \mathrm {~ms} ^ { - 1 }\) and collides with a model truck C, of mass 4 kg , which is travelling at a speed of \(0.2 \mathrm {~ms} ^ { - 1 }\) towards B on the same set of rails. After the collision between B and C , the speeds of B and C are in the ratio 1 to 2 .
Determine the two possible values of the coefficient of restitution between B and C .