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You are standing on a large sheet of frictionless ice and holding a large rock. In order to get off the ice, you throw the rock so it has velocity 12.0 m/s relative to the earth at an angle of 35.0 degree above the horizontal. If your mass is 70.0 kg and the rock’s mass is 3.00 kg, what is your speed after you throw the rock?

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Thus, the speed after throw of rock is 0.42 m/s.

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01

Given in the question.

The rock’s velocity is v=12 m/s at an angle above the horizontal.

Your mass is m =70.0 kg.

Mass of rock is m'=3.0kg.

02

Law of conservation of momentum.

The total momentum of all the constituents of an isolated system should remain unchanged during the collision process, though the momentum individual constituents may change.

03

The horizontal component of velocity of rock.

Let the horizontal component of velocity of rock vxis given as-

vx=vcos35°=12m/scos35°=9.83m/s

Thus, the horizontal component of this velocity is 9.83 m/s.

The horizontal component of the rock’s momentum is:

p=m'vx=3kg×9.83m/s=29.5kg.m/s

04

The horizontal component of velocity of person.

The momentum of the person is calculated as follows:

p'=mv'=70kgv'

Now, apply law of conservation of momentum as follows:

p=p'29.5 kg⋅m/s=(70 kg)×v'v'=29.5kg.m/s70kgv'=0.42m/s

Hence, the speed after throw of rock is 0.42 m/s.

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