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In a head on, inelastic collision, a 4,000-kg truck going10m/s east strikes a 1,000-kg car going 20 m/s west?
What is the speed and direction of the wreckage?
How much kinetic energy was lost in the collision?

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Physics: Principles with Applications
7th Edition, 2013
Giancoli
ISBN: 9780321625922

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