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Collisions

Elastic and inelastic interactions between two objects.

  1. Elastic and Inelastic Collisions

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1. Elastic and Inelastic Collisions

For an elastic collision collision the total kinetic energy is conserved, when the collision is inelastic some of the kinetic energy is lost from the system while in a perfectly inelastic collision the two objects will stick together after the collision and move off together.

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