collision

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Collisions involve multiple bodies interacting for a short period of time. The physics of collisions cannot be overlooked. It is used from games such as billiards to probing the subatomic world in billion dollar particle accelerators. The types of collisions to be discussed here are elastic and inelastic collisions.

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Cross-references: inelastic collisions, types, particle accelerators, period
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This is version 1 of collision, born on 2007-08-12.
Object id is 263, canonical name is Collision.
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45.50.-j (Dynamics and kinematics of a particle and a system of particles)

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