Homework Help: Physics

Posted by Joel on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 7:45pm.

A 3kg mass moving initially to the right along the x axis with a speed of 8m/s makes a perfectly inelastic collision with a 5kg mass initially at rest at the origin.what fraction of the initial kinetic energy of the system is lost in the collision.what formula must i use.

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