Generally, when an inelastic collision occurs, the nonrelativistic energy of two observable objects is not conserved because some energy has been transformed into other forms such as heat and sound. I understand the fact that the energy of the entire isolated system is conserved if the total mass of the system is a constant. However, why should not some momentum of the two objects transform to the air molecules to generate airflow and sound?
Please note that I am asking the reason why momentum is conserved while energy is not conserved in terms of the collision of two observable objects.
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