Determine how much energy is transformed

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A railroad car of mass 2.45 x 104 kilogram is moving with a speed of 3.97 m/s. It collides and couples with three other coupled railroad cars, each of the identical mass as the single car and moving in the same direction with an initial speed of 1.99 m/s.

Determine how much energy is transformed into internal energy in the collision?

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