A wagon of mass M can move without friction alomg horizontal rails.A simple pendulum consisting of a sphere of mass m is suspended from the ceiling of the wagon by a string of lenght l. At the initial moment the wagon and the pendulum are at rest and the string is deflected through an angle α from the vertical .Find the velocity of the wagon when the pendulum passes through its mean position.

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