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A trolley having mass of moves with uniform speed of on a frictionless track. A child of mass runs on the trolley from one end to the other ( away) with a speed of relative to the trolley in a direction opposite to its inotion and ultimately jumps out of the trolley. With how much velocity has the trolley moved from the time the child begins to run?
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since, no external force is acting on the system, we can apply conservation of linear momentum.
Speed of trolley
If be the initial velocity of trolley, be the absolute velocity of the boy after the beginning of journey of the boy, their relative velocity is .
So,
Now, applying law of conservation of momentum,
Momentum before the boy begins tu run
Momentum after the beginning of boy's running
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