Question
Underline the correct alternative:
(a) When a conservative force does positive work on a body, the potential energy of the body increases/decreases/remains unaltered.
(b)Work done by a body against friction always results in a loss of its kinetic/potential energy.
(c) The rate of change of total momentum of a many-particle system is proportional to the external force/sum of the internal forces on the system.
(d) In an inelastic collision of two bodies, the quantities which do not change after the collision are total kinetic energy/total linear momentum/total energy of the system of two bodies.
Solution
(a) Decreases
(b) kinetic energy
(c) external force
(d) total linear momentum and total energy
