Definition:Inelastic Collision
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Definition
An inelastic collision is a collision in which the total kinetic energy of the interacting bodies is not the same after the collision as it was before.
Also see
- Results about collisions can be found here.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): collision
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): inelastic collision
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): collision
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): inelastic collision