A bullet hits and gets embedded in a solid block resting on a horizontal frictionless table. What is conserved?

(A) Momentum alone. 

(B) K.E. alone. 

(C) Momentum and K.E. both. 

(D) P.E. alone.


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Correct option is: (A) Momentum alone.

When a bullet gets embbed in a solid block the whole kinetic energy gets lost . This will be perfectly inelastic  c ol lision in which only momentum is conserved.

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Correct option is: (A) Momentum alone.