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A penguin has decided to jump between two small icebergs floating in the ocean near Antarctica....

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A penguin has decided to jump between two small icebergsfloating in the ocean near Antarctica. You may neglect waterresistance and treat the motion of the icebergs relative to thewater as frictionless. At the beginning of the problem all are atrest with respect to each other. The penguin runs and jumps off thefirst iceberg and land on the second, where it comes to restrelative to the second iceberg. The mass of the penguin is mp. Thetwo icebergs each have a mass of mice. The penguin jumps with aspeed of vp at an angle γp.Find the final relative speed of the twoicebergs.

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Initially iceberg 1 and penguin are at rest when penguin jumpsoff the first iceberg with velocity making an angle iceberg 1 moveswith velocity As the    See Answer
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