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This tag is for questions relating to collision which is the interaction between two or more bodies that results in physical contact and an exchange of momentum between the bodies involved. When it happens, kinetic energy is often exchanged between the molecules’ translational motion and their internal degrees of freedom.
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Intuitively, why is the quantity of kinetic energy conserved in a 1-dimensional elastic coll... [closed]
.$$ Put a better way, the amount of mass going in any direction before and after the collision stays the same. We call the quantity momentum. This is quite palatable. …