Demonstrate that an advantage of choosing the center-of-mass as the inertial reference system, is that the...

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Demonstrate that an advantage of choosing the center-of-mass asthe inertial reference system, is that the system's linear momentumof the two body system is zero.

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To show When the Center of mass frame is choosed as inertial frame then linear momentum vanishes Proof Let the two bodies have mass m1 and m2 Let S denote laoratory frame    See Answer
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