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Answer carefully, with reasons :-In an elastic collision of two billiard balls, is the total kinetic energy conserved during the short time of collision of the balls (i.e. when they are in contact) ?

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Total kinetic energy is not conserved because when bodies are in contact during elastic collision even, the kinetic energy is converted into potential energy.
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