A 250 g sticky hockey puck slides along a frictionless, horizontal ice surface at 75 m/s in the +x direction. It collides with a 500 g sticky puck originally sliding at 25 m/s in the -y direction. They collide perfectly inelastically. How much kinetic energy is lost in this collision?

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A 250 g sticky hockey puck slides along a frictionless, horizontal ice surface at 75 m/s in the +x direction. It collides with a 500 g sticky puck originally sliding at 25 m/s in the -y direction. They collide perfectly inelastically. How much kinetic energy is lost in this collision?

 

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