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Given information

Given:

The mass of the neon atom is    .

Initial velocity of another atom=    

After the collision, the neon atom moves at an angle of and the unknown atom moves at an angle down the x-axis.

 

 

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

Let the mass of the unknown atom be .

final speed of another atom=  

Let the final speed of the neon atom be .

since its the case of elastic collision, momentum and energy of the system will be conserved    

   

 

using the law of sines,

 

which gives,

 

 

 

 

 

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