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A heavy lab cart moves with kinetic energy kinit on a track and collides with a lighter lab cart that is initially at rest. the carts bounce off each other but the collision is not perfectly elastic, causing the two-cart system to lose kinetic energy klost . a student wonders if the fraction of kinetic energy lost from the two-cart system during the collision depends on the speed of the first cart before the collision and plans to perform an experiment.

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The hypothesis; greater fraction of kinetic energy is lost from the system during the collision when the speed of the first cart is greater is; Correct

What is the Hypothesis of the Collision?

In an Inelastic Collision, energy is not conserved . Now, the loss of energy could be in the form of friction, vibrational energy, sound, heat energy, e.tc.

Now, for example frictional energy is proportional to the velocity. The, the greater the velocity, the greater the loss of energy. This is also true about  vibrational energy, sound, heat energy, e.tc.

Thus, we can conclude that the hypothesis is correct.

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