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a table tennis ball launcher fires a tennis ball. what do we know about the impulse on both of the objects?

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Answer:

As we know by Newton's III law that if an action force is applied on an object then the reaction force of same magnitude in opposite direction will act on the other.

So here when ball is shot using launcher then the force will be same on launcher as well as ball so we can say

now since force is of same magnitude for both both then we will have

so from above we can say that both ball and launcher will have same impulse but opposite in direction.

Now since ball will have less mass so here it will have more speed while launcher is heavy in mass so its speed is slow or very small as comapre to ball.

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