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Question

Assertion: A particle strikes head-on with another stationary particle such that the first particle comes to rest after collision. The collision should necessarily be elastic.

Reason: In elastic collision, there is a loss of momentum ofthe system of the particles.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

  • If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

  • If assertion is true but reason is false.

  • If both assertion and reason are false.

Answer

D.

If both assertion and reason are false.

In elastic collision there is no loss in kinetic energy in the system as a result of the collision. Both momentum and kinetic energy are consrved quantities in elastic collisions.

In an Inelastic collision, there is a loss of kinetic energy. While the momentum of the system is conserved in an elastic collision, kinetic energy is not.

Momentum of a system remains conserved in any kind of collision.

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