Which of the following qualifies as a collision? Of the collisions, which are nearly elastic and which inelastic? (a) A basketball rebounds off the backboard; (b) two magnets approach, their north poles facing; they repel and reverse direction without touching; (c) a basketball flies through the air on a parabolic trajectory; (d) a truck strikes a parked car and the two slide off together, crumpled metal hopelessly intertwined; (e) a snowball splats against a tree, leaving a lump of snow adhering to the bark.
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