A 1260-kg car traveling initally with a speed of 250 ms in


A 1,260-kg car traveling initally with a speed of 25.0 m/s in an easterly direction crashes into the rear end of a 9,600-kg truck moving in the same direction at 20.0 m/s. The velocity of the car right after the the collision is 18.0 m/s to the east.

A) what is the velocity of the truck right after the collision.

_________m/s (east)

B) How much mechanical energy is lost in the collision. (Use input values with adequate number of significant figures to calculate this answer.)

___________kJ

C) Account for this loss in energy.

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