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📅 NSB MS 2017🎓 MS🔄 Round 15#️⃣ Question 14🌟 Bonus✍️ Short Answer

A 10-pound mass and a 100-pound mass are coupled by a compressed massless spring and rest motionless on a frictionless surface. After the spring is released you measure the speed of the 100-pound weight to be 1 foot per second. What would you measure as the speed, in feet per second, of the center of mass of the 10-pound and 100-pound system?

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