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Re: [Phys-L] elastic collisions

Energy remains energy. Some of the kinetic energy of translation is transformed into kinetic energy of rotation. The linear momentum of the system after the collision is still the same as the linear momentum of the system before the collision. The angular momentum with respect to any fixed axis is the same after the collision as it is before the collision too.

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From: Phys-l [mailto:phys-l-bounces@mail.phys-l.org] On Behalf Of bernard
cleyet
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2016 9:39 PM
To: Phys-L@Phys-L.org
Subject: Re: [Phys-L] elastic collisions

My confusion is thinking some of the energy of the incident object is
transferred into angular momentum. Linear momentum is still conserved?


The animation works well, but is of two point masses, so no spin.


bc