7.1

Elastic Collisions

by Professor Mark Sutherland, University of Toronto.
http://thorin.adnc.com/~topquark/fun/JAVA/collision/collision.html
Control the ratio of initial to final velocity in a collision between two equal and elastic point masses. Displacement is plotted in both the target rest and center of mass frames.
Professor Sutherland has a collection of physics applets and tutorials at fun@learning.physics.

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