JEE Main Physics question

PhysicsSystems of Particles and Rotational MotionJEE Main

A bullet hits and gets embedded in a solid block resting on a horizontal frictionless table. What is conserved [CPMT 1970, AFMC 1996, BHU 2001, DCE 2009]

Answer: (C)

Solution

This is a perfectly inelastic collision, so only momentum is conserved; kinetic energy is not (some converts to heat/deformation).

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