Question: A 2 2 5 g firecracker is launched vertically into the air and explodes into two pieces at the peak of its trajectory. If a

A 225 g firecracker is launched vertically into the air and explodes into two pieces at the peak of its trajectory. If a 148 g piece is projected horizontally to the left at 20 m/s, what is the speed (in m/s) and direction of the other piece?
speed m/sdirection---Select---upwarddownwardto the leftto the rightThe magnitude is zero.

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