You said...
"And mometum is conserved in every collision (and explosion) anyway, whether elastic, partially inelastic, or completely inelastic."
This is correct but in an elastic collision mass A travels back at a velocity near equal to that it came at. I am trying to have it so it will...
If you would like we could think of the explosion as a loaded spring that pushes at the exact moment that A hits B. The power of the spring is set to exact amount of force required to push B forward and slow A to the speed of B.
I am just trying to understand in my mind how one could convert...
Glue is good - for a lot of things!
But let say I am not able to use glue only an explosion.
So based on the definition of an inelastic collision, in creating a small explosion that allows the two masses to meet and now travel at the same velocity as opposed to bouncing off each other...
Hi,
If I have two 1 kg masses that are going to hit each other. Mass A is traveling at 10 ms and Mass B is at rest but I wish to cause for an Inelastic Collision. How do I achieve this?
As best I can make of it, I would require a buffer between mass A & B... and I would expect this buffer...
Hi,
This is my first thread related to an idea I have been working on and I would really appreciate some help. My education goes no further than high school, so I am doing my best.
I apologize if I am doing this completely incorrectly. I am truly trying to do my best.
To understand...
Hi,
Just for the fun of it... I took your experiment to heart and jumped on a spaceship and headed into space to achieve an answer.
The spaceship -> my air hockey table -> I attached the pencil to the puck... close to center to the best of my ability. (certainly flawed) I proceeded to hit...