PW02: Elastic - Inelastic Collision

Elastic Collision

In an elastic collision, both kinetic energy and momentum are conserved , This means that the total kinetic energy of the system remains constant before and after the collision.

Figure 1 : representation for an elastic collision between two objects involved in the collision, of mass〖 m〗_1, m_2 . Impulse and kinetic energy are defined as follows

Figure 1

According to the conservation of momentum and , kinetic energy for the elastic collision. If the collision occurs in one direction then (ox):

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