Collision Model: Inelastic Collisions

Section 10.3

What are the two types of major collisions:

Inelastic Collisions

Elastic Collisions

What are the conserved quantities of an Inelastic Collision?

Momentum, mass, energy

What is Inelastic Collisions?

When the momentum is conserved, since this is a collision, which means the interaction occurs rapidly enough to neglect external forces

What is perfectly Inelastic Collision?

Particles are connected after the collision

Particles move at the same velocity after the collision

Maximum kinetic energy is lost during a collision

Also called completely or totally Inelastic Collision

What is conserved in an Inelastic Collision?

Momentum

What is true about a completely inelastic collision?

Max kinetic energy is lost during a collision

Momentum is conserved

The colliding objects are connected after the collision

The colliding objects have the same velocity after the collision

Which of the following is true for an explosion?

A complete inelastic collision occurring in reverse

Momentum is conserved

The exploding particles have the same velocity before the collision

In this example of an inelastic collision, the total kinetic energy before and after the collision remained constant as expected.

False