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23 March, 03:33

On a very muddy football field, a 120 kg linebacker tackles an 75 kg halfback. immediately before the collision, the linebacker is slipping with a velocity of 8.6 m/s north and the halfback is sliding with a velocity of 7.4 m/s east.

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  1. 23 March, 05:46
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    B4 the tackle:

    The linebacker's momentum = 115 x 8.5 = 977.5 kg m/s north

    and the halfback's momentum = 89 x 6.7 = 596.3 kg m/s east

    After the tackle they move together with a momentum equal to the vector sum of their separate momentums b4 the tackle

    The vector triangle is right angled:

    magnitude of final momentum = √ (977.5² + 596.3²) = 1145.034 kg m/s

    so (115 + 89) v (f) = 1145.034 ←←[b/c p = mv]

    v (f) = 5.6 m/s (to 2 sig figs)

    direction of v (f) is the same as the direction of the final momentum

    so direction of v (f) = arctan (596.3 / 977.5) = N 31° E (to 2 sig figs)

    so the velocity of the two players after the tackle is 5.6 m/s in the direction N 31° E

    btw ... The direction can be given heaps of different ways ... N 31° E is probably the easiest way to express it when using the vector triangle to find it
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