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    How Do You Calculate Speed and Momentum for a 2D Inelastic Collision?

    Okay, so what I'm confused with is. A 2D collision took place... It was an inelastic collision in the sense that energy was lost, but the objects did not stick together. So, I have two initial velocities and two final velocities When calculating the speed at the centre of mass, I know I...
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    How Do You Calculate Speed at the Center of Mass After a Collision?

    I'm sorry, this has accidentally been posted twice, I didn't notice it was going through because my internet was failing.
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    How Do You Calculate Speed at the Center of Mass After a Collision?

    Urgent Help Needed- Finding the speed at the centre of mass? Please help me :( Hi, I was attempting to work through this question. Anyways, I was working from a graph, so the radius 2.5 cm, the two of them collided, it was an inelastic collision as the two objects did part ways, so how do I...
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    Center of mass velocity after inelastic collision of equal masses

    Urgent Help Needed- Finding the speed at the centre of mass? Please help me :( Hi, I was attempting to work through this question. Anyways, I was working from a graph, so the radius 2.5 cm, the two of them collided, it was an inelastic collision as the two objects did part ways, so how do I...
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    2D Collision b/w two objects, How do I find the speed of the centre of mass?

    Hi, I was attempting to work through this question. Anyways, I was working from a graph, so the radius 2.5 cm, the two of them collided, it was an inelastic collision as the two objects did part ways, so how do I find the centre of gravity? I attempted to calculate it... but if someone could...
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    Sources of error in momentum conservation collision lab

    Hey everyone. In class, we conducted a lab to verify the law of conservation of momentum. On a frictionless surface (glass surface), we had to collide two masses and record the time, and then make calculations for the velocity... and using that, calculate the initial and final momentums and...
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    How can I find time, given the frequency?

    I know frequency = 1/t, but is that in every case? In our momentum lab, we were given that the frequency is 1/50... does that mean the time is 50s?
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    Sources of error in 2D collision momentum lab

    Well, it was a glass tube, covered with a garbage can and the system was set up in such a way, that when it was turned on, it was supposed to be frictionless. We collided the two masses and used a stop watch to find out the time.
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    Sources of error in 2D collision momentum lab

    Hi Everyone! I'm a grade 12 physics student and we conducted a momentum lab. On a frictionless surface, we conducted a simple 2D collision and using the data gathered from that, we had to calculated the momemtums and indicate what type of collision had taken place... that was all fine and done...
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