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A shell is fired from a cannon with a velocity  at an angle  with the horizontal direction. At the highest point in its path, it explodes into two pieces, one retraces its path to the cannon and the speed of the other piece immediately after the explosion is

a)

b)

c)

d)



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A shell is fired from a cannon with a velocity  at an angle  with the horizontal direction. At the highest point in its path, it explodes into two pieces, one retraces its path to the cannon and the speed of the other piece immediately after the explosion is

a)

b)

c)

d)

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Answer Key / Explanation : (a) -

(a)

As we know that at the highest point, the shell has only the horizontal component of velocity which is . If  be he velocity of second exploded piece, then applying conservation of linear momentum along -axis

Or 

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