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Elastic and Inelastic Collisions: The Case of the Happy and Sad Balls

Interactive Lecture Demonstration to illustrate that impulses are larger in elastic collisions than in inelastic collisions if other factors are the same.

Keywords:: Classical Mechanics, Technology, NSDL, Education, Demonstrations

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Science and Technology / Physics

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Material Type:: Simulation
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 27, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:: July 27, 2016
Author:: Steve Shropshire
Submitter:: Barbra Bied Sperling

Primary Audience:: High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division
Technical Format:: Website
Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States