A railway car of mass m1 travelling at a velocity of v1 collides with a second car of mass m2 travelling at v2 and the two join together. What is their final velocity?
Momentum is conserved in any collision, and for a single body is given by p = mv. The momentum before is m1v1+m2v2, and the momentum after is (m1 + m2)u where u is the final velocity, so the final velocity is (m1v + m2*v2)/(m1 + m2).
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