A billiard ball is shot east at 2.80 m/s. A second, identical billiard ball is shot...

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A billiard ball is shot east at 2.80 m/s. A second, identicalbilliard ball is shot west at 1.20 m/s. The balls has a glancingcollision, not a head-on-collision, deflecting the second ball by90° and sending it north at 1.55 m/s. What is the angle that thevelocity of the first ball makes after the collision, with respectto the east direction?

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This problem is based on Law of Conservation of linear momentumIn an isolated system no external force the algebraicsum of momenta    See Answer
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