Anti-Head-On Collision

Classical Mechanics Level pending

In a perfectly inelastic collision between two objects of identical mass (\(m_1 = m_2\)) and identical velocities (\(\vec{v}_1 = \vec{v}_2\)), what is the final energy?

Express your answer as a fraction of the total initial energy.

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