A curling rock of mass 20 kg is sliding along a frictionless ice surface when it strikes a rock half its mass, giving the rock an instantaneous acceleration of 8.0 m/s2 [W]. According to Newton’s Third Law, the 20 kg rock will experience an acceleration of

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A curling rock of mass 20 kg is sliding along a frictionless ice surface when it strikes a rock half its mass, giving the rock an instantaneous acceleration of 8.0 m/s2 [W]. According to Newton’s Third Law, the 20 kg rock will experience an acceleration of

 

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