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On a frictionless horizontal air table, puck A (with mass 0.246 kgkg ) is moving toward puck B (with mass 0.367 kgkg ), which is initially at rest. After the collision, puck A has velocity 0.123 m/sm/s to the left, and puck B has velocity 0.646 m/sm/s to the right.
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