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What is perfectly elastic and perfectly inelastic collision?

April 26, 2017collision elastic inelastic perfectly

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What is perfectly elastic and perfectly inelastic collision?

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Hi Yehia, A perfectly elastic collision is when the kinetic energy going into a collision is exactly equal to the kinetic energy out, with no energy absorbed by the 2 bodies. Picture 2 pool balls that, when they impact, do not deform or change shape. Perfectly inelastic would be the bodies absorbing all of the energy in, with no kinetic energy out.