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AP EAMCET · PHYSICS · Center of Mass Momentum and Collision

A bullet strikes against a wooden block and is embedded in it, the nature of collision is

  1. A elastic
  2. B perfectly inelastic
  3. C inelastic
  4. D perfectly elastic
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(B) perfectly inelastic

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When a bullet strikes a wooden block and embedded in it, then such type of collision is an example perfectly inelastic collision. In this type of collision, maximum loss of kinetic energy occurs.