A cue ball traveling at 4.0 m/s makes a glancing, elastic collision with a target ball...

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A cue ball traveling at 4.0 m/s makes a glancing, elasticcollision with a target ball of equal mass that is initially atrest. The cue ball is deflected so that it makes an angle of 30°with its original direction of travel.

(a) Find the angle between the velocity vectors of the two ballsafter the collision. °

(b) Find the speed of each ball after the collision. cue ballm/s target ball m/s

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am mass of each ballvcxo initial velocity of cue ball along xdirection 4msvtxo initial velocity of target ball along xdirection 0msvcxf final velocity of cue ball along xdirection 4 Cos30msvtxf final velocity of    See Answer
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