I have read multiple threads including: https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/93971/ https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/91003/ https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/599278/ https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/598480/ https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/602734/ https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/511971/ In an elastic collision, I understand that momentum is conserved and kinetic energy is conserved. If billiard ball of silver (with velocity $v(Ag)$ impacts a stationary billiard ball of aluminum, I am trying to calculate the velocity of the aluminum ball after the collision, $v(Al)$. After an elastic collision, the impactor is at rest and the impactee has the motion. Using momentum, $= m \cdot v$ $$m(Ag) \cdot v(Ag) = m(Al) \cdot v(Al)$$ Assuming silver is 4x denser than aluminum, then using momentum, the aluminum ball should have velocity $$v(Al) = 4\cdot v(Ag)$$ But if we use kinetic energy, $1/2 m \cdot v^2$ $$\frac12m(Ag)\cdot v(ag)^2=\frac12m(Al)\cdot v(Al)^2$$ $$v(Al)^2=\frac{m(Ag)}{m(Al)}\cdot v(Ag)^2$$ $$v(Al)=\left(\frac{m(Ag)}{m(Al)}\right)^{\frac12}\cdot v(Ag)$$ $$v(Al)=2\cdot v(Ag)$$ Somewhere I have lost some neuron connections in my brain because I cannot resolve this conflict. This is a perfectly elastic collision so both momentum and kinetic energy should be conserved.