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While working on the digital effects for Star Wars XXIII, youfind yourself responsible for a scene in which a TIE fighter (ofmass m) crashes and embeds itself into a Star Destroyer (of mass20m). To improve upon the scientific realism of the series, youdecide to calculate the physics of the collision. Model the TIEfighter as a point particle and the Star Destroyer as a rod; assumethat the fighter hits close to one end of the Destroyer and istraveling perpendicular to it at 500 m/s at the time of impact. Youestimate that the Star Destroyer is 100 m long.

(a) What is the cruiser's final rate of rotation?

(b) At what speed does the cruiser's center of mass move afterthe collision?

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