Having aced your Physics 2111 class, you get a sweet summer-job working in the I

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Having aced your Physics 2111 class, you get a sweet summer-job working in the International Space Station. Your room-mate, Cosmonaut Valdimir tosses a banana at you at a speed of 16 m/s. At exactly the same instant, you fling a scoop of ice cream at Valdimir along exactly the same path. The collision between banana and ice cream produces a banana split 8.2 m from your location 1.4 s after the banana and ice cream were launched.

1. How fast did you toss the ice cream?

2. How far were you from Valdimir when you tossed the ice cream?

Explanation / Answer

1.
speed = distance/time = 8.2/1.4 = 5.857 m/sec
2.
distance traveeled by banana = speed of banana *time = 16*1.4 = 22.4
so, total distance = distance traveeled by banana + distance traveeled by scoop = 22.4+8.2 = 30.6 m

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