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Two 5000-kg freight cars roll toward one another (one at 1 m/s and the other at 2 m/s) on a level track. Thus before they collide one car's kinetic energy is 2500 J and the other's is 10,000 J. They collide and couple together. The amount of kinetic energy turned into heat (mostly warming the couplers) in the collision is ? |
A. | 1250 J |
B. | 2500 J |
C. | 7500 J |
D. | 11,250 J. |
Answer» E. | |