What happens when two cars of equal mass hit each other at the same velocity?

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Chapter9: Momentum And Its Conservation
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About INELASTIC collisions: (all questions are related to each other.) Please answer it short and easy to understand.

What happens when two cars of equal mass hit each other at the same velocity?

What happens if you keep the velocities the same but you double the mass of one car? (include what direction the cars go)


From the question above, what happens to their combined velocity?


Can you cancel out the effect of the greater mass of one car?  Explain how.


What happens if both cars are traveling the same direction but the faster car from behind hits the slower moving car ahead? (include what direction the cars go)





  1.  From #10 above, what happens to their combined velocity?
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