Velocity of vehicles after the collision


Assignment:

A 1000-kg Volkswagen with speed 30m/sec collides head-on with a large truck of mass 10,000kg and speed 25m/sec. As a result of the collision, the two vehicles lock together.

a. Find the magnitude and the direction of the velocity of the vehicles right after the collision.

b. Compute the total Kinetic energies before and after the collision.

c. Is the collision elastic or inelastic?

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