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Relative Velocity and Recoil

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MIT's own material for this topic, in MIT's order: Lesson 18: Relative Velocity and Recoil [18.1-18.4].

Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 8.01SC Classical Mechanics, Fall 2016, Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty, Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, Dr. Michelle Tomasik, Prof. Anna Frebel, Prof. Vladan Vuletic — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Order: the items appear in the order MIT's own session page lists them; the sessions follow MIT's sequence. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 22, 2026. How RedLectern is built.

18.1 Relative Velocity

MIT 8.01SC · Week 6: Continuous Mass Transfer · This session on MIT OpenCourseWare ↗

  1. 18.1 Relative VelocityLecture video · transcript Watch

18.2 Set up a Recoil Problem

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  1. 18.2 Set up a Recoil ProblemLecture video · transcript Watch

18.3 Solve for Velocity in the Ground Frame

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  1. 18.3 Solve for Velocity in the Ground FrameLecture video · transcript Watch

18.4 Solve for Velocity in the Moving Frame

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  1. 18.4 Solve for Velocity in the Moving FrameLecture video · transcript Watch

MIT's problem set

Problem Set 6

MIT places Problem Set 6 at the end of Week 6: Continuous Mass Transfer; it covers the whole part, not only this topic. Problem Set 6 on MIT OpenCourseWare ↗

MIT publishes no solutions for this problem set.

Where this sits in MIT 8.01SC

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MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty, Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, Dr. Michelle Tomasik, Prof. Anna Frebel, Prof. Vladan Vuletic, 8.01SC Classical Mechanics, Fall 2016.

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Fall 2016 · Open the original course on OCW ↗

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