Timeline for Cart moving on frictionless tracks in the rain
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| Nov 12, 2014 at 11:41 | answer | added | 410 gone | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 11, 2014 at 20:48 | comment | added | user | After t seconds that is? Could you help out with the initial setup of the equations | |
| Nov 11, 2014 at 16:54 | comment | added | Georg | Well, the final velocity (as $\ell\rightarrow\infty$) is zero. | |
| Nov 11, 2014 at 16:44 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 11, 2014 at 16:42 | comment | added | user | In that case the how would I work out an equation for the final velocity of the cart | |
| Nov 11, 2014 at 16:00 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 11, 2014 at 15:53 | comment | added | BowlOfRed | No. The rain that falls into the cart has $v_x = 0$, while the water that leaves the cart has has $v_x$ equal to the cart's velocity. If the cart is moving, then it has transferred momentum. | |
| Nov 11, 2014 at 15:27 | history | asked | user | CC BY-SA 3.0 |