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Spare Me, Sally!

    Sally spares no effort in pinning down this line of bowling. So far, her dog is one up on her!

    Sally is a power bowler; her 5-kg ball has a velocity of 8 m/s when it strikes the 2-kg pin head on. After the collision, the ball's velocity is 4 m/s.

     Since you know that total momentum is conserved, you should be able to easily calculate the velocity of the pin after the collision!

Sally gets a spare
 

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