Collisions
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What Is The Advantage Of Studying A Collision Process In The Centre Of Mass System Or Frame Of Reference?
Advantages of studying the collision process of the centre of mass system or frame of reference: When the origin of the reference frame system is a rigidly fixed point to…
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What Do You Mean By Direct Or Head-On And Oblique Collisions?
A collision may be direct or head-on and oblique. In a direct collision, the direction of motion of both the colliding particles or bodies is along the line of impact…
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What Is Coefficient Of Restitution?
Coefficient of restitution: Let us consider, and be the velocities of two colliding bodies immediately before impact along the line of impact, and be the velocities of that colliding bodies…
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Two Masses m1 And m2 Travelling In The Same Straight Line Collide. Find The Velocities Of The Particles After Collision In Terms Of Velocities Before Collision. Also Find The Velocities After Collision In Case Of (i) Perfectly Inelastic And (ii) Perfectly Elastic Collision.
Ans. Let us consider, two particles of masses and travelling along the same straight line as shown in the fig.1. Let, and be their respective velocities before collision and and…
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Find The Velocities Of The Colliding Particles After Perfectly Elastic Collision In Term Of Their Initial Velocities Travelling In The Same Straight Line.
Ans. Let us consider two particles of masses and travelling along the same straight line with velocities and respectively impinge on each other. Let and be their respective velocities after…
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Show That For A Perfectly Elastic Collision The Total Kinetic Energy Before Collision Is equal To The Total Kinetic Energy After Collision.
Ans: Let us consider two colliding bodies of masses and moving with velocity and before collision. Let and be their respective velocities after perfectly elastic collision. According to the principle…
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A Particle Of Mass m1 Moving With Velocity u1 Collides Head On With A Particle Of Mass m2 At Rest Such That After Collision They Travel With Velocities v1 And v2 Respectively. If The Collision Is Perfectly Elastic One, Show That v2=(2.m1.u1)/(m1+m2).
Ans. The particle of mass collides head on with the particles of mass . The velocities of particles and before collision are and respectively. After collision their respective velocities are…
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If A Particle Collides Head On Perfectly Elastic Collision With A Particle Of Same Mass At Rest, Then Show That The Two Particles Exchange Their Velocities.
Ans. Let us consider a particle of mass moving with velocity collides head-on with a particle of same mass which is at rest, . Let and be their respective velocities…