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An isolated particle of mass is moving in the horizontal plane along the -axis, at a certain height above the ground. It suddenly explodes into two fragments of masses and . An instant later, the smaller fragment is at . The larger fragment at this instant is at
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Before the explosion, the particle was moving along -axis i.e., it has no -component of velocity. Therefore, the centre of mass will not move in -direction or we can say .
Now,
Therefore,
or,
Now,
Therefore,
or,
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