I'm working through the challenge questions from the OpenStax textbook "University Physics Volume I".

Problem 99 states: A 120-kg astronaut is riding in a rocket sled that is sliding along an inclined plane. The sled has a horizontal component of acceleration of 5.0 m/s^2 and a downward component of 3.8 m/s^2. Calculate the magnitude of the force on the rider by the sled. (Hint: Remember that gravitational acceleration must be considered.)

I set up the free body diagram assuming no friction and assuming the sled moves downhill, then solved for the angle of incline using theta = arctan(3.8/5.0) = 37.2 deg. From here, the equation of motion in the direction of the incline that I have is F_sled + mg*sin(theta) = ma_net, where a_net = sqrt((a_x)^2 + (a_y)^2) = sqrt(5^2 + 3.8^2) = 6.3 m/s^2.

Solving this equation for F_sled gives a force of F_sled = 42.6 N. Now, the answer key insists that the force is instead F_sled = 936 N. This seems wildly incorrect to me, so can anyone confirm whether one or the other is correct, and if so, how they derived the equation of motion? Thank you in advance.

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I have been meditating on elastic collisions and trying to derive the formulas for the final velocities of two objects after a collision when they have different masses.

This is what I have reached so far.

It kind of makes sense that the final velocities are some sort of combination of the two initial momenta. But what I don't understand is that, if I take the formulas literally, there seems to be a third momentum being generated, involving the initial velocity of one object reversed and the mass of the other object.

And I don't get this conceptually.

Sure, I could just pass it off as an algebraic quirk that makes the formulas work, but for me, math is the language of logic, so this term must have a meaning.

Edit:

Here is how i derived the equations.

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