Dec
20
Suppose you are blindfolded in a game room where your friends are playing billiards. If you only hear a?
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Ashley asked:
clicking sound as one ball collides with another, what would you conclude about the collisions?
clicking sound as one ball collides with another, what would you conclude about the collisions?
not enough information is given OR
the collision are inelastic OR
the collision are elastic
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Tricky question. We normally treat a single billiards collision as elastic.
BUT, because we hear the collision, some of the Kinetic Energy is being converted into Sound Energy ====> There is a loss of KE ====> Collisions are inelastic.