Two ice pucks (one orange and one blue) of equal mass are involved in a perfectly elastic glancing collision as shown in the figures below. The orange puck is initially moving to the right at voi = 8.00 m/s, strikes the initially stationary blue puck, and moves off in a direction that makes an angle of θ = 39.0° with the horizontal axis while the blue puck makes an angle of ϕ = 51.0° with this axis as in the second figure.
Note that for an elastic collision of two equal masses, the separation angle
θ + ϕ = 90.0°.
Determine the speed of each puck after the collision in meters per second.
v0f= _________
Vbf=___________
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