Question: (a) An outfielder catches a baseball. Is the collision between ball and glove elastic, inelastic, or totally inelastic? (b) When a moving steel ball 1

(a) An outfielder catches a baseball. Is the collision between ball and glove elastic, inelastic, or totally inelastic?

(b) When a moving steel ball 1 collides head-on with a steel ball 2 at rest, ball 1 comes to rest and ball 2 moves away at the initial speed of ball 1 . Which type of collision is this?

(c) Is the sum of the momenta of the two colliding objects constant in part \(a\) ? In part \(b\) ?

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