Question: Nate the Skate was an avid physics student whose main nonphysics interest in life was hi ghspeed skateboarding. In particular, Nate would often don a

 Nate the Skate was an avid physics student whose main nonphysics

Nate the Skate was an avid physics student whose main nonphysics interest in life was hi ghspeed skateboarding. In particular, Nate would often don a protective suit of BounceTex, which he invented, and after working up a high speed on his skateboard, would collide with some object. In this way, he got a gut feel for the physical properties of collisions and succeeded in combining his two passions.* On one occasion, the Skate, with a mass of l 19 kg, including his armor, hurled himself against a 859 kg stationary statue of Isaac Newton in a perfectly elastic linear collision. As a result, Isaac started moving at 1.99 ms and Nate bounced backward. What were Nate's speeds immediately before and after the collision? (Enter positive numbers). Ignore friction with the ground. speed before: 1426 m/s speed after: 12.2? 111/5 Incorrect Incorrect *By the way, this brief bio of Nate the Skate is written in the past tense, because not long ago he forgot to put on his Bounce Tex before colliding with the Washington Monument in a perfectly inelastic collision. We will miss him

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