Find the percentage of initial kinetic energy transferred

Reference no: EM13667141

A 5.00 gram object moving to the right at +20.0 cm/s makes an elastic head-on collision with a 10.0 gram object that is initially at rest.

(a) Estimate the velocity of each object after the collision.

5.00 g object

cm/s

10.0 g object

cm/s

(b) Determine the percentage of the initial kinetic energy transferred to the 10.0 gram object.

Reference no: EM13667141

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