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I guess I should have highlighted on more thing: I know what you're thinking, "if before the collision there is "x" amount of total energy, and if after the collision some of that energy gets spent on heat and deformation, then there should be less energy for velocity in order to make up for...

You are correct in saying that there is less velocity in the +x-direction, so it would seem like there should be less final momentum due to the fact that momentum is dependent on velocity. But this would be the wrong assumption because we did not take into consideration the other variable that...