Consider a body shown in the figure, consisting of two identical balls, each of connected by a light rigid rod. If an impulse
linear velocity of imparted to the body at one of its ends, what would be its angular velocity?

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: System of balls will rotate about its entre of mass.
Initial angular momentum 
Final angular momentum 
By conservation of momentum, 

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