Read each description and classify each as an elastic collision or inelastic collision a. Football player catches a football
b. A billiard ball colliding with another billiard ball
c. A train crashing into a plan

Arailroad car collides with and sticks to an identical railroad car that is initially at rest. after the collision, the total kinetic energy of the two cars is a) the same as before. b) half as much as before. c) one third as much as before. d) one fourth as much as before. e) twice as much as before.