Generally, collisions can be described as either elastic or inelastic. And it's going to be important to figure out which kind you're dealing with, because the math works in very different ways.

Segment 4C: Collisions In this segment, we differentiate between elastic and inelastic collisions. The conservation of momentum and the conservation of energy are explored as we do examples ...

After the inelastic collision, the spacecraft just totally sticks into the asteroid. The final velocity of the two objects will be v 2. Illustration: Rhett Allain.

Really, there is not much new here. This is an introduction to objects that interact. To describe this, I will need to pull several different ideas together (that you have probably already looked ...

While attempting to understand inelastic three-body collisions, Greene and colleagues made the connection to work done in the 1970s by the Soviet theoretician Vitaly Efimov. He showed that at specific ...

An example of an inelastic collision might be a moving train car bumping into a similar stationary car and coupling to it. The total energy would remain the same, but the mass of the new system ...

Inelastic collisions occurring at the point of intersection cause changes in the quantum states of the NO molecules, which have specific velocities due to the conservation of energy and momentum.