A 1-Kg Chunk of Putty Moving at 1 M/s Collides

question 17

Multiple Choice

A 1-kg chunk of putty moving at 1 m/s collides with and sticks to a 5-kg bowling ball that is initially at rest on a frictionless surface.The speed of the putty thereafter is

• A)1/4 m/s.
• B)1/5 m/s.
• C)1/6 m/s.
• D)impossible to solve with the information given.

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