In a head-on, inelastic collision, a 4,000-kg truck going 10 m/s east strikes a 1,000-kg car going

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In a head-on, inelastic collision, a 4,000-kg truck going 10 m/s east strikes a 1,000-kg car going 20 m/s west. 

(a) What is the speed and direction of the wreckage? 

(b) How much kinetic energy was lost in the collision?

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Inquiry into Physics

ISBN: 978-1305959422

8th edition

Authors: Vern J. Ostdiek, Donald J. Bord

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