A package of mass m is released from rest at a warehouse loading dock and slides down a h = 3.6 m high frictionless chute to a waiting truck. Unfortunately, the truck driver went on a break without having removed the previous package, of mass 2m, from the bottom of the chute.

(a) Suppose the packages stick together. Whatis their common speed after the collision?
m/s

(b) Suppose the collision between the packages is elastic. To what =height does the package of mass m rebound?
 cm
 
 

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h m 2m h m 2m