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MHT CET · Physics · Center of Mass Momentum and Collision

A bullet is fired from the gun. It hits the solid block resting on a frictionless surface, gets embedded into it and both move jointly. In this process,

  1. A Both momentum and kinetic energy are not conserved.
  2. B Only kinetic energy is conserved.
  3. C Bot the momentum and kinetic energy are conserved.
  4. D Only momentum is conserved.
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(D) Only momentum is conserved.

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Concept based.
This is a case of a perfectly inelastic collision in which linear momentum is conserved but kinetic energy is not conserved.