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Laws of Conservation

Problem 1.198

A ball of mass mm moving with velocity v0v_{0} experiences a head-on elastic collision with one of the spheres of a stationary rigid dumbbell as whown in Fig. 1.50.1.50 . The mass of each sphere equals m/2,m / 2, and the distance between them is l.l . Disregarding the size of the spheres, find the proper angular momentum M~\tilde{M} of the dumbbell after the collision, i.e. the angular momentum in the reference frame moving translationally and fixed to the dumbbell's centre of inertia.

Reveal Answer
M~=1/3lmv0\tilde{M}=1 / 3 \quad l m v_{0}