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A particle of mass m with initial momentum p1 collides with a particle of equal mass at re...

A particle of mass m with initial momentum p1 collides with a particle of equal mass at rest. If the magnitudes of the final momenta of the two particles are p′1 and p′2 respectively, show that the energy loss of the collision is given by

where ψ is the angle between the paths of the two particles after colliding.

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