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A nucleus is at rest in the laboratory frame of reference. Show that if it disintegrates into two smaller nuclei the products must move in opposite directions.

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By momentum conservation principle, total final momentum is zero. Two momentum vectors cannot sum to a null momentum unless they are equal and opposite.
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