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A railroad car of mass 2.20 ✕ 104 kg moving at 5.00 m/s collides and couples...
A railroad car of mass 2.20 ✕ 104 kg moving at 5.00 m/s collides and couples with two coupled railroad cars, each of the same mass as the single car and moving in the same direction at 1.20 m/s.
(a) What is the speed of the three coupled cars after the
collision?
_________________m/s
(b) How much kinetic energy is lost in the collision?
________________J
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