On a frictionless horizontal air table, puck A (with mass 0.255 kg ) is moving toward puck B (with mass 0.375 kg ), which is initially at rest. After the collision, puck A has velocity 0.121 m/s to the left, and puck B has velocity 0.653 m/s to the right.
a) What was the speed vAi of puck A before the collision?
b) Calculate ΔK, the change in the total kinetic energy of the system that occurs during the collision.
Use momentum conservation principle to find the speed of puck A before collision and hence find the change in total kinetic energy as shown below
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