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A car with inertia 1500kg is driving down a one-way street at 15 m. An unobservant...

A car with inertia 1500kg is driving down a one-way street at 15 m. An unobservant s

driver of a 2000kg pickup truck is driving the wrong way down the street at −10 ms , and runs head on into the car. (Assuming the system consists of the car and the truck only)

a) What is the velocity of the car after the collision if the velocity of the truck is 5 ms ?

b) What is the coefficient of restitution for this collision? What type of collision is this?

c) What is the velocity of center of mass of the system?

d) Find the center-of-mass kinetic energy for the system.

e) What is convertible kinetic energy of the system before the collision?

  1. f) What is the minimum amount of energy required to conserve the momentum of the system?

  2. g) What is the total kinetic energy of the system before the collision?

  3. h) What is the total kinetic energy of the system after the collision?

i) What is the change in kinetic energy of the system due to this collision? Since energy cannot be destroyed, explain what happens to this energy.

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