Spaceship 1 and spaceship 2 have equal masses of 150kg. Spaceship 1 has the speed of 0 m/s and spaceship 2 has a speed of 6 m/s. They collide and stick together and what is their speed ?

3 m/s

Explanation:

The computation of speed is shown below:-

We will compute the equation by using the law of conservation of momentum; also, the total momentum prior and following the collision must be conserved. Therefore we can write the equation is the following manner:-

where the symbols represent

150 kg is the mass of spaceship 1  = m1

150 kg is the mass of spaceship 2  = m2

0 m/s is the initial velocity of spaceship 1  = u1

6 m/s is the initial velocity of spaceship 2 = u2

and v is the velocity of the 2 ships so that they can collide and combined together

For v we will get the following equation to reach the speed

the ima (higher than 1m) will be greater than the ima with the height of 1m.