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Published April 1976 | Published
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Elastic collision in one dimension viewed as a linear transformation

Abstract

The solution for a two-body elastic collision in one dimension is well known. Let u_1, u_2 be the initial velocities and ν_1, ν_2 be the velocities after collision, where the indices 1 and 2 refer to the particle with mass m_1 and m_2, respectively. The final velocities can be solved in terms of the initial velocities.

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© 1976 American Association of Physics Teachers. Received 15 July 1975.

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