bursting shell

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This problem was contributed to the Feynman Lectures Website by Sukumar Chandra.

A shell flying with velocity 500 m/s bursts into three identical fragments so that the kinetic energy of the system increases 1.5 times. What maximum velocity can one of the fragments obtain?

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