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A bullet travelling horizontally hits a block kept at rest on a horizontal surface and gets embedded into it, the two together then move with a uniform velocity. Which one of the following conservation laws holds?

A

Conservation of angular momentum

B

Conservation of kinetic energy

C

Conservation of linear momentum

D

Conservation of velocity

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C
In this case only linear momentum is conserved.
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