Question

Collisions Quiz Name 1. The figure shows an overhead view of two particles sliding at constant velocity over a frictionles surface. The particles have the same mass and the same initial speed, and they collide where their paths intersect. An x axis is arranged to bisect the angle between their incoming paths. The region to the right of the collision is divided into four lettered sections by the x axis and four numbered dashed lines. Along what line, or in what region, do each of the particles travel if the collision is... (a) ..completely inelastic? Answer: b) ...inelastic? (e) ...elastic? Answer d) What if the collision is completely inelastic, and the particle coming from the top left has twice the initial velocity as the particle coming from the botton left? Answer: (e) What if the collision is completely inelastic, and the particle coming from the top left has twice the initial velocity as the particle coming from the bottom left, but the bottom left particle is twice as massive as the top left particle?

Answer 1