what happens to the momentum and energy in elastic and perfecting inelastic collisions
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While momentum of the system is conserved in an inelastic collision, kinetic energy is not. ... This type of collision is perfectly inelastic because the maximum possible kinetic energy has been lost. This doesn't mean that the final kinetic energy is necessarily zero; momentum must still be conserved.
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Elastic means that no energy is converted into heat during the collision so kinetic energy before and after the collision remains constant. In both elastic and inelastic collisions, momentum is always conserved.
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