Question

Which of the following collisions is not perfectly inelastic?

• A. A man boarding a moving bus
• B. A bullet fired into a wooden block and getting embedded in it.
• C. The capture of a neutron by a nucleus
• D. A player kicking a football.

Answer 1

The correct option is D A player kicking a football.

The correct choice is (d), because in a perfectly inelastic collision, the colliding bodies stick to each other after the collision.