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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Cars and snow
In the past two days you have, maybe, seen cars hitting other cars or running into an object. Such as a snow pile. What type of collision is it and why?
It could be an inellastic collission. There is alot of force in a collission like this. If two cars go in teh same direction and hit each other and dont bounce away but stick it is an inellastic collission.
It would be an inellastic collision because the cars stuck together after the collision. However, if they bounced off one another, then it would be an ellastic collision. These collisions happen all the time.
It would be an inelastic collision. The slower car will change direction and the two cars will move together. However they more than likely will seperate after a while so it is not a perfectly inelastic collision.
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It could be an inellastic collission. There is alot of force in a collission like this. If two cars go in teh same direction and hit each other and dont bounce away but stick it is an inellastic collission.
It's the inellastic collission. An example of this is when two things collie and stay together. It doesn't have bounce.
It would be an inellastic collision because the cars stuck together after the collision. However, if they bounced off one another, then it would be an ellastic collision. These collisions happen all the time.
It would be an inelastic collision. The slower car will change direction and the two cars will move together. However they more than likely will seperate after a while so it is not a perfectly inelastic collision.
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