A police car with a mass of 1800 kg is going West at 60 km/h when it has an inelastic collision with a southbound 4500 kg ambulance. The wreckage ended up traveling at 45 km/h at 56° south of west   a) How would you draw a vector diagram of this collision? (label and indicate direction)   b)How would you find the initial velocity of the ambulence?   c) is this collision inelastic or elastic?

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A police car with a mass of 1800 kg is going West at 60 km/h when it has an inelastic collision with a southbound 4500 kg ambulance. The wreckage ended up traveling at 45 km/h at 56° south of west

 

a) How would you draw a vector diagram of this collision? (label and indicate direction)

 

b)How would you find the initial velocity of the ambulence?

 

c) is this collision inelastic or elastic?

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