Question

Is this an example of an elastic collision or inelastic collision? A 200-kg bumper car stopped at an intersection is rear-ended by an 1100-kg truck

Inoving at 13 m/s. If the car was in neutral and the brakes were off, the bumper car would BOUNCE OFF of the truck into the intersection.​

Answer 1

inelastic collision.

Step-by-step explanation:

An elastic collision consists in a collision in wich the bodies implied bounce off. Furthermore, the momentum of the bodies is conserved.

In as inelastic collision the momentum is not conserved, and is possible that the bodies implied in the collision stay joint after the collision.

In this case yo have that both bumper car and truck stayed joint after the collision. Hence, this situation is an inelastic collision.