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If you have an object hitting a stationary object of equal mass in an inelastic collision, what will happen?

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00:01 Hi students in this question, there are two parts and in the first part of the quest in we are asked to explain the effect when an inelastic collision takes place between a stationary and a moving object.
00:11 Now before discussing about the effect, we need to discuss about elastic collision as well as inelastic collision where elastic collision is a type of collision in which no loss of kinetic energy take place.
00:22 On the other hand, for the case of elastic collision, loss of kinetic energy will occur.
00:27 And for the case of inelastic collision, since there is no loss of kinetic energy, both the kinetic analogy as well as momentum will be conserved.
00:35 On the other hand, for the case of inelastic collision due to the loss of kinetic energy, only momentum will be concerned for this particular case.
00:43 Therefore from the concept of inelastic collision, we can say that in order to keep the momentum conserved, both the objects will be moving in the forward direction in which the first object was moving.
00:53 Therefore, among the options given here, option a is the right answer.
00:59 Now in the second part of the question, we are asked to explain about the effect that takes place when two different objects having same velocity is undergoing in elastic collision.
01:08 And in order to explain this, let us consider two different objects, first object b, a and the second object b, and here for the case of object a, its mass is taken as ma, which is equal to a quantity of m.
01:21 On the other hand, mass of object b is taken as mb which is equal to 2m in accordance to the question.
01:28 And here in the question it is given that both these objects are having a same velocity...
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