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Golf ball being struck by the club; photograph taken with an exposure of 10βˆ’6 second Two colored spheres of equal size approach and collide at the center, then move apart along different paths, with arrows indicating their initial and final velocities in the center-of-mass frame. Diagram showing two particles of equal mass colliding: on the left, arrows indicate the initial and resulting motion paths labeled p0, p1, and p2; on the right, a triangle illustrates conservation of momentum with the same vectors.

collision: References & Edit History

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Invalidated site: Two Dimensional Collision. May 08, 2015
Article revised and updated. Jun 01, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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