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etc. or absorbed by the objects themselves), the collision is said to be ''inelastic''; such collisions involve objects coming to a full stop. An example of this is a baseball bat hitting a baseball - the kinetic energy of the bat is transferred to the ball, greatly increasing the ball's velocity. The sound of the bat hitting the ball represents the loss of energy. A "perfectly inelastic" collision (also called a "perfectly plastic" collision) is a limiting case

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