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

  • A

    Momentum and kinetic energy

  • B

    Kinetic energy alone

  • C

    Momentum alone

  • D

    Neither momentum nor kinetic energy

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