Collisions
Claimed by Kimberly Chan This topic covers Collisions, a comprehensive way to combine the Momentum and Energy Principles.
The Main Idea
Collisions are special types of contact interactions between objects. From a physics standpoint, collisions are a way to combine the Momentum and Energy Principles. In the case of collisions, if we choose a system of the two objects interacting, the change in momentum of the system and the change in energy of the system are both zero. With this in mind, calculations with collisions become very simple. There are two types of collisions, elastic collisions and inelastic collisions.
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