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A substantial amount of KE was lost in your inelastic collisions. Since momentum was largely conserved,...

A substantial amount of KE was lost in your inelastic collisions. Since momentum was largely conserved, we know that external forces were not very significant. Where did the lost KE go?

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As per rule of conservation of energy....we know that energy is neither can be created nor can be destroyed...it only can be transformed from one form into another form....as we know in real world there is a minor energy loss happens in collision between 2 objects...so moment is conserved in each and every form but... kinetic energy is reduced because a certain amount of energy has transformed into another form because during collision they exerted force on each other so they have done a certain amount of work..so energy loss is obvious...this kinetic energy has changed into heat energy..but it is still in the form of energy because energy can not be destroyed...Thank you I hope it will help you to understand..

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