A car with a mass of 1.5 × 103 kilograms is traveling west at a velocity of 22 meters/second. It hits a stationary car with a mass of 9.0 × 102 kilograms. If the collision is inelastic, what is the final direction and approximate velocity of the two cars?

when two balls of the different masses are dropped from equal height, they reach the ground at the same time .this is because they experience the same acceleration.

the acceleration is independent of mass.

thus when they are dropped they will always maintain the same velocity and travel the same distance (neglect air resistance of course) at the same time.

force required to detach it is given by

charges are taken to be fundamental charge

now we have

so above is the minimum distance at which it will detach