A stick of length l and mass M lies on a frictionless horizontal surface on which it is free to move in any way. A ball of mass m moving with speed v collides elastically with the stick as shown in the figure. If after the collision ball comes to rest, then what should be the mass of the ball

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D
By conservation of energy,

By conservation of momentum,

From (i) and (ii), we get

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