Recent content by ranon

Thanx again. It sounds like I may have been proposing something like Maxwell's demon. I know it is not possible to latch the masses together without energy loss, but it may be possible to minimize this loss and therefore approach conservation of energy. If I can design it, maybe I should try to...

From lack of response, I wonder if my model of elastic masses with frictionless silent rigid latches is acceptable in the context of this experiment. Any thoughts?

cepheid--thank you for your reply--I have a better understanding. It seems that one may have a whole range of inelastic collisions from near totally inelastic collisions with extensive energy loss and collisions with very little energy loss(hard billiard balls with a latch to connects them after...

Hmmm, am I having difficulty as momentum is a vector quantity with energy a scaler?

In a perfectly inelastic collision, does mv^2/2 + mgh = =(m+M)V + (m+M) gH with H the height after low point ? If seems not if there is energy dissipated in inelastic colision. If the post collision Velocity is effected by the loss, than why isn't momentum effected"

Pendulum mass m released from stop h above bottom of arc. within plane m hits M at bottom of arc.--how high does m+M go? Perfectly inelastic collision. Kinetic energy is not conserved--work is done (deformation, noise, temp etc) but momentum is conserved. how is this possible? If there is...