Timeline for Two carts on a frictionless rail collide
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| Jul 3, 2016 at 14:53 | comment | added | Mephistopheles | @Christian-OK I stand corrected. But the additional final energy in your calculation must be due to some external addition of energy from something other than the initial KE of the 2 cart system, something not accounted for in the analysis. Maybe a spring like Bill N suggested. | |
| Jul 2, 2016 at 14:01 | comment | added | Christian Pao. | I wrote the steps I followed. And I forgot to mention that $v_2=0$, even though was intrinsic in my system. | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 1:45 | history | answered | Mephistopheles | CC BY-SA 3.0 |