Two ice skaters that weigh the same skate toward each other with the same mass and same

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Two ice skaters that weigh the same skate toward each other with the same mass and same speed on parallel paths. As they pass each other, they link arms.
(a) What is the velocity of their center of mass after they link arms?
(b) What happens to their initial, translational kinetic energies?
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College Physics

ISBN: 978-0321601834

7th edition

Authors: Jerry D. Wilson, Anthony J. Buffa, Bo Lou

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