This time, your mass is 87.0 kg and the sled s mass is 16.1 kg. You re on the sled, initially moving to the west at 9.61 cm/s. From the southern shore, your friend throws a baseball of mass 0.152 kg, which you catch as it s traveling northward with a horizontal velocity component of 20.9 m/s. What will be the sled s (and your) speed after catching the ball?

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To solve this problem we can again use the principle of conservation of momentum The total momentum ... View the full answer