How Does Energy Transfer in a Collision Between Moving and Stationary Particles?

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Conservation of energy

show that when Mass (m1) and kinetic energy (Q1) collide with a stationary particle (m2) it transfers an energy. Using conservation of energy and momentum

Q2 = (4M1M2)/(M1 + M2)^2 x Q1

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