Most Collisions Are Secretly in One Dimension

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Most Collisions Are Secretly in One Dimension with tags physics, minutephysics, science

This video is about elastic and inelastic collisions in 1D, 2D and 3D - and how the collision of conservation of energy with conservation of momentum, plus a secret direction, results in a completely predetermined behavior for most collisions.

REFERENCES

1D Collision Calculator:

Elastic collision of spheres Wolfram

Oblique collisions of two 2D spheres

Ballistic Pendulum

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