Understanding Elastic and Inelastic Collisions

Practice Questions

AP Physics C Electricity & Magnetism › Understanding Elastic and Inelastic Collisions

Questions
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1

There are two skaters. The male skater with mass 68kg travels 15m/s North. He approaches a 60kg female skater who is travel 12m/s East; they approach each other at right angles. When they meet, they hold on to each other. At what direction and speed do they move after they meet?

2

A 30kg cart travels at 9m/s and it hits another cart of mass 46kg traveling at 4m/s in the opposite direction. After the collision, they stick together to form one cart. Find the speed of this cart

3

Object A has mass and initially moves to the right at . It then collides with object B, which has mass and was initially moving to the right at . If the two objects stick together after the collision, what percentage of the initial kinetic energy has been dissipated?

4

We have two balls. The first ball has mass 0.54kg and is traveling 7.1m/s to the right. It collides head-on elastically with a second ball of mass 0.95kg traveling 2.8m/s to the left. After the collision, what is the speed and direction of each ball?

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