Take the general case of an object of mass mA and velocity vA elastically striking a stationary (vB =0) object of mass mB head-on.
(a) Show that final velocities vA and vB are given by

(b) What happens in the extreme case when mA much smaller than mB? Cite a common example of this.
(c) What happens in the extreme case when mA is much larger than mB?
Cite a common example of this.
(d) What happens in the case when mA = mB? Cite a common example?

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т, VA + mB 2m, VA ma + mB