Creative Commons License Copyright © Michael Richmond. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

A hockey puck slides into a brick

A hockey puck of mass m1 = 2 kg slides at vi = 15 m/s due East. It bumps into a stationary brick of mass m2 = 5 kg. Afterwards, the puck slides away to the northeast with velocity v1f = 8 m/s at θ1 = 10 degrees, and the brick slides to the southeast at v2f at θ2 = 11 degrees,

Which of the following is the final speed of the brick?

  1. 1.55 m/s
  2. 2.16 m/s
  3. 2.90 m/s

Is this an elastic collision? That is, does it conserve kinetic energy?

  1. yes
  2. no

Creative Commons License Copyright © Michael Richmond. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.