Question

There are two gliders, read(larger) and yellow(smaller). The yellow glider is at rest, while the red glider is pushed on an air track (no friction). In the inelastic collisions, which glider should have the larger change in velocity according to Newton’s laws of motion? Why? Does it matter whether the light glider bumps into the heavier one or the heavier one bumps into the light one? Please explain.

Answer 1

Yeah... Well, they will do the thing where it goes like this:
v = v0 + at
x = x0 + v0t + ½at2
v2 = v02 + 2a(x − x0)
v̅ = ½(v + v0)
Then you