A father racing his son has 1/ 4 the kinetic energy of the son,
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A father racing his son has 1/ 4 the kinetic energy of the son,who has 1/ 3 the mass of the father. The father speeds up by 1.4m/s and then has the same kinetic energy as the son. What are theoriginal speeds of (a) the father and (b) the son?
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Kinetic energy of an object having mass m and speed v isgiven byLet the initial kinetic energy mass and the initial speed ofthe father is M and
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