Linear Momentum

[Greg Bernhardt]

Author: Dr. Donald Luttermoser of East Tennessee State University

[Astronuc]

Collision concepts
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/colcon.html

Discussion of elastic collision.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/elacol.html
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/elacol2.html

Inelastic collisions
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/inecol.html


A somewhat more advanced discussion of collisional mechanics, which can involve conservation of momentum and/or angular momentum. For elastic collisions, there is conservation of kinetic energy, which is not conserved in inelastic collisions.
http://www.virginia.edu/ep/Interactions/1__introduction_&_collision_kinematics.htm

http://www.virginia.edu/ep/Interactions/class_notes.htm