Question: An internal explosion breaks an object, initially at rest, into two pieces, one of which has 1.5 times the mass of the other. If 5500

An internal explosion breaks an object, initially at rest, into two pieces, one of which has 1.5 times the mass of the other. If 5500 J is released in the explosion, how much kinetic energy does each piece acquire?

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