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Collisions
Question

A body falling from a height of 10m rebounds from hard floor. If it loses 20% energy in the impact, then coefficient of restitution is

Moderate
Solution

As 20% energy lost in collision therefore

mgh2=80% of mgh1  h2h1=0.8

but e=h2h1=0.8=0.89

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