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Most fundamental reason for Newtonian KE loss being invariant in inelastic collisions

This answer to a question about why Newtonian kinetic energy is quadratic in velocity shows that if an inelastic collision's KE loss is invariant under Newtonian boosts it has to quadruple when ...
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