Question

A 15000 kg railroad car moving 7m/s to the North collides with and sticks to another railroad car of the same mass that is moving the same direction at 1.5 m/s. What type of collision is this? What is the velocity of the joined cars after the collision?
bobpursley
it is an inelastic collision, solve by setting initial momentum equal to final momentum.

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