Physics

Physics

Problem

Blocks of masses mm, 2m2m, 4m4m and 8m8m are arranged in a line on a frictionless floor. Another block of mass mm, moving with speed vv along the same line (see figure) collides with mass mm in perfectly inelastic manner. All the subsequent collisions are also perfectly inelastic. By the time the last block of mass 8m8m starts moving the total energy loss is p%p\% of the original energy. Value of 'pp' is close to: ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/diraq-contents/homework-question-parsing/marker/20260106T182719Z/590972b4f3ad4887befdf95d477a41f2/30a26f2d17ca95672702bf50fb4f0242_img.jpg) ![](![](https://storage.googleapis.com/diraq-contents/homework-question-parsing/marker/20260106T182719Z/590972b4f3ad4887befdf95d477a41f2/30a26f2d17ca95672702bf50fb4f0242_img.jpg)) (a) 77 (b) 94 (c) 37 (d) 87

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