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The Manga Guide to Physics
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The Manga Guide to Physics

by Hideo Nitta, Keita Takatsu, Ltd. Trend-Pro Co.
May 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
248 pages
6h 21m
English
No Starch Press
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Elastic and Inelastic Coision 143
These equations can be represented as vectors, as shown in the preceding figure on
the left. The vectors can be rearranged to combine the change in momentum and impulse
for objects 1 and 2, respectively, with the law of action and reaction, to get the vector on the
right.
Elastic and Inelastic Collision
It’s important to note that problems involving collision cannot always be solved using the
law of conservation of momentum alone. In the real world, we must consider the dissipation
of kinetic energy and other factors. We’ll learn more about kinetic energy in the next chapter.
However, we can easily apply the law ...
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