Question

Imagine that you replace the block in the video with a happy or sad ball identical to the one used as a pendulum, so that the sad ball strikes a sad ball and the happy ball strikes a happy ball. The target balls are free to move, and all the balls have the same mass. In the collision between the sad balls, how much of the balls' kinetic energy is dissipated?

a) None of it
b) All of it
c) Half of it

Answer 1

Answer: a) The Answer to the question is option a) None of it.

Step-by-step explanation:

The reason is because according to the law of conservation of energy Energy can neither be created nor destroyed but can be transformed from one form to the other. Therefore none of the kinetic energy was dissipated, rather it was transformed to another form of energy.