Zeta Anderson, having easily made the turn in the corridor, flips around drawing

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Zeta Anderson, having easily made the turn in the corridor, flips around drawing her low-velocity slug thrower (safe for shooting in spaceships) and shoots at the Zorn Dominator, which is still tentacular, and still chasing her. It takes longer to go around the corner, which allows her time to aim for the center of mass of the tentacles. The bullet embeds itself fully within the creature and stops, which does enough damage to kill it. Is the collision of the bullet with the monster elastic or inelastic? What happens to Zeta's speed when she fires the gun? Zeta Anderson, having easily made the turn in the corridor, flips around drawing her low-velocity slug thrower (safe for shooting in spaceships) and shoots at the Zorn Dominator, which is still tentacular, and still chasing her. It takes longer to go around the corner, which allows her time to aim for the center of mass of the tentacles. The bullet embeds itself fully within the creature and stops, which does enough damage to kill it. Is the collision of the bullet with the monster elastic or inelastic? What happens to Zeta's speed when she fires the gun?

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As the bullet stops in the body of the creature hence it is a perfectly inelastic collision. As the bullet leaves the Gun, the speed of Zeta will decrease to maintain the total momentum zeta and bullet.

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