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An air-track glider undergoes a perfectly inelastic collision with an identical glider that's at rest?

What fraction of the first glider's initial kinetic energy is transformed into thermal energy in this collision?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    .5 is the correct answer. Perfect inelastic means kinetic energy is not conserved therefore, I got this answer which I know is correct.

    Source(s): Physics 101 book volume 1
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