Recall that for oblique impact problems, it is recommended that you use three FBDs: A alone, B alone and A+B together. A+B together allows us to make the impact force internal (and not appear in the ...

For this problem, make your system big. In your FBD include A, B, P and link AOB. With this choice, you can simplify your angular impulse-momentum analysis since you do not need to deal with the ...