Question: A (20 mathrm{~g}) ball is fired horizontally with initial speed (v_{mathrm{i}}) toward a (100 mathrm{~g}) ball that is hanging motionless from a (1.0-mathrm{m})-long string. The

A \(20 \mathrm{~g}\) ball is fired horizontally with initial speed \(v_{\mathrm{i}}\) toward a \(100 \mathrm{~g}\) ball that is hanging motionless from a \(1.0-\mathrm{m}\)-long string. The balls undergo a head-on, perfectly elastic collision, after which the \(100 \mathrm{~g}\) ball swings out to a maximum angle \(\theta_{\max }=50^{\circ}\). What was \(v_{\mathrm{i}}\) ?

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