Timeline for Cylinder colliding with point mass
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| Nov 2, 2016 at 17:04 | comment | added | sammy gerbil | @NegativeTension : ... Because it wasn't travelling radially towards the sphere before the collision! | |
| Nov 1, 2016 at 22:00 | comment | added | NegativeTension | So the conservation of energy dictates that the magnitude of velocities is the same before and after the collision. but how about the angles why isn't the particle travelling radially away from the sphere after the collision? | |
| Nov 1, 2016 at 21:34 | history | answered | Amara | CC BY-SA 3.0 |