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So just to clarify, is the following expression true? 1/2m_1v_1_f^2 + 1/2m_2v_2_f^2 = (1/2m_1v_1_i^2 + 1/2m_2v_2_i^2) * C.O.R. And the velocities are not relative to the center of mass or anything like that?

My physics professor gave us a lab in which we have to do accident reconstruction. The difficulty I am having is that we have not gone over how to calculate collision with coefficients of restitution in class. So far we've only done completely elastic or inelastic, yet now he expects us to do...