I just wanted to emphasize that both terms are surprisingly similar but mean two different things.

In Germany, we also use evangelisch for e.g. Lutheran and Calvinist, but keep the English term evangelikal when speaking about those churches mentioned in the article.

The thing is: You are using velocities v1, v2 which are relative to Earth.

The formula includes the relative speed (v_2 - v_1) of both bodies. Derivation, see Wikipedia or a book on engineering mechanics.

Somebody falling from 5 meters hight on hard concrete ground will not bounce up but will likely have some broken bones, or a broken skull. What happens is that all parts of thier body is decelerated to a speed of zero within a distance of one or two centimeters, which involves massive forces that easily break bones.

case 1, k=0. Fortunately, a car is not solid rock. I don’t know about a typical of k for collissions of humans with a car, but if you say it’s 0, that’s actually good for the biker, as the forces then acting on their tissues is smaller than if that would not the case.

So concluding. If the collision of the biker and the car is completely inelastic, it doesn’t matter if the biker crashes into a resting car or the car crashes into a standing biker. The only thing that matters is the relative velocity of the two objects.