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Exploring Collisions w/ Accelerating Objects
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[QUOTE="jbriggs444, post: 6660458, member: 422467"] If you are not certain whether the collision is of short enough duration that one can neglect the external force then consider calculating the impulse delivered by the external force for the duration of the collision. Multiply (or integrate if the external force will be variable enough to matter) force times duration to compute "impulse". That is the amount of momentum that is delivered by the external force while the collision is occurring. [/QUOTE]
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