Kinetic Energy Lost in a Vehicle Collision
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A car of mass m, traveling with a velocity v, strikes a parked station wagon, whose mass is 2m. The bumpers lock together in this perfectly inelastic head-on collision. What fraction of the initial kinetic energy is lost in this collision?
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