Snooker balls of equal mass: a moving ball hits a stationary ball head-on and stops. This shows the collision is:

  1. explosive
  2. (nearly) elastic
  3. perfectly inelastic
  4. impossible
Answer

B) (nearly) elastic

Equal masses exchange velocities in an elastic collision. SLO P-11-B-12 · Application

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