A 1400 kg car, heading north and moving at 35 miles per hour collides in a perfectly inelastic collision with a 4000 kg truck going East at 20 miles per hour.

a.
What is the speed and direction of the wrecked vehicles just after collision?
b.
What percentage of the total mechanical energy is lost from the collision?

Note: units are not so important here. Feel free to use kg miles/hour for momentum and for energy.





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