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So this may be an easy question, I'm not sure, but I could not find an answer online. Basically here is the scenario. There are two balls, one has a mass of 1g and the other has a mass of 100g. The 1g ball is traveling at 10m/s, and strikes the other ball. According to momentum, m1v1=m2v2...

I'd like to write them but I'm not really qualified, I just took a couple classes in high school and that was years ago. It does irk me though that howstuffworks.com is giving out incorrect information, to say the least. I am still somewhat confused on this subject though, since what they say...

I read the following on howstuffworks.com, and their explanation just doesn't seem correct to me. "One of the interesting things about kinetic energy is that it increases with the velocity squared. This means that if a car is going twice as fast, it has four times the energy. You may have...