A hockey puck traveling at speed v on essentially frictionless ice collides with one end of a straight stick lying flat on the ice and sticks to that end. In this collision

A. momentum is conserved.
B. angular momentum is conserved.
C. energy is conserved.
D. all of the above are conserved.
E. only momentum and angular momentum are conserved.


Answer: E

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