Maximally Inelastic Collisions

Claimed by Colleen Becton.

Contents [hide]

1 The Main Idea

1.1 A Mathematical Model

1.2 A Computational Model

2 Examples

2.1 Simple

2.2 Middling

2.3 Difficult

3 Connectedness

4 History

5 See also

5.1 Further reading

5.2 External links

6 References

The Main Idea

As with all inelastic collisions, internal energy does change during this collision. This could be shown as getting hot, deforming, rotating, vibrating, in an excited state, and so on. In the maximally inelastic case, however, the objects have maximum dissipation, though that does not mean they stop, as they still follow the conservation of momentum. The objects stick together.

A Mathematical Model

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