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What is a perfectly elastic collision?
Does it exist in the real world?
Does it exist in the real world?
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Perfect elastic collision is a collision where no kinetic energy is lost during the collision (so there is no sound and no friction during the collision). This occurs on the atomic level (for example gas particles collide basically elastically)
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i thought that's only an elastic collision?
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