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What is the best description of one billiard ball hitting a second billiard ball?(1 point)
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Kinetic energy in the second ball is transferred to the first ball.
Kinetic energy in the second ball is transferred to the first ball.

Most of the kinetic energy in the first ball is transferred to the second ball.
Most of the kinetic energy in the first ball is transferred to the second ball.

All of the kinetic energy in the first ball is transferred to the second ball.
All of the kinetic energy in the first ball is transferred to the second ball.

Potential energy is transferred from the first ball to the second ball.
Potential energy is transferred from the first ball to the second ball.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Most of the kinetic energy in the first ball is transferred to the second ball.

Explanation: in a billiard-ball collision momentum (and for nearly elastic collisions, most of the kinetic energy) is transferred from the moving ball to the struck ball. It is not potential energy being transferred, and only in the special case of a perfectly elastic, one-dimensional, equal-mass head-on collision is all the kinetic energy transferred.