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I was reading and looking at some of the animations on inelastic and elastic collision on Wikipedia and I have a very narrow idea of which is which. 1) Do you know a simple way of testing when a collision is elastic or inelastic? 2) If it is inelastic M.E. will equal the sum of both E.K...

m1 = 5, v1i = +10 m2 = 3, v2i = 0 +y |_+x How do I find v1f and v2f? The balls crash into each other and after the crash I want to know the final velocity.