Timeline for Inelastic Collision and Kinetic Energy
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| Jul 29, 2020 at 8:31 | comment | added | Toffomat | Well, I would certainly attribute the heating of an inelastically deformed solid to "internal friction", but I guess we can leave it at that. | |
| Jul 29, 2020 at 0:40 | comment | added | Jeffrey J Weimer | @Toffomat Words and their definitions absolutely matter. Friction is NOT a generic substitution for "the process that transforms kinetic energy into internal energy." Friction is the resistance between two surfaces that rub against each other. That is it. | |
| Jul 28, 2020 at 17:00 | vote | accept | Sudipto Sarker | ||
| Jul 28, 2020 at 16:59 | vote | accept | Sudipto Sarker | ||
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| Jul 28, 2020 at 12:24 | comment | added | Toffomat | I guess it's more about words than content, but I'd call the processes that transform kinetic into internal energy "friction". Also, friction doesn#t really casue heat loss, but rather loss of kinetic energy to heat. | |
| Jul 27, 2020 at 23:23 | comment | added | Jeffrey J Weimer | @Toffomat Done. Friction is not required as a defining way to explain the inelastic collision between two bodies. | |
| Jul 27, 2020 at 23:22 | history | edited | Jeffrey J Weimer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added note about friction
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| Jul 27, 2020 at 12:57 | comment | added | Toffomat | Maybe one can stress that there indeed is friction in an inelastic collision, contrary to what's claimed in the question: The friction is internal to the deforming bodies of fluids, and dissipated the kinetic energy into heat. | |
| Jul 27, 2020 at 12:17 | history | answered | Jeffrey J Weimer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |