A basketball bounces off the floor. It is difficult to apply conservation of momentum usefully to the ballearth system in this case because
A) The system is not isolated.
B) A basketball does not bounce perfectly elastically.
C) Air friction is significant.
D) We can't easily measure the earth's velocity.
E) The law doesn't apply to contact interactions.
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