You are trying to determine the velocity of an asteriod using an elastic collision.
You fire a 1 kg projectile to the right moving with speed 1 m/s toward on 100 kg mass that is moving left with some unknown speed. After an elastic collision, we measure that the launced projectile bounces back toward you with a speed of 40.58 m/s. Find the initial speed of the larger 100 kg mass
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