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Homework Statement
.True or False:[/B]
For a completely elastic collision of two isolated masses the energy lost is
½μνr2
Where μ is the reduced mass of the system and νr is the magnitude of relative velocity between the two particles.
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The Attempt at a Solution
Elastic collision is defined as collision in which no energy is lost. So the answer should be false. But the answer in the answer key is true. So what is the error?