An elastic collision is a type of collision in which both momentum and kinetic energy are conserved. This means that: Momentum Conservation: The total momentum of the system before the collision is ...

RECENT experiments 1,2 have shown that when metals are bombarded with energetic protons and ions, charged particles are emitted along with neutral particles. The present work was carried out to ...

We extend the equations of motion that describe non-relativistic elastic collision of two particles in one dimension to an arbitrary associative algebra. Relativistic elastic collision equations turn ...

When one snooker ball hits another, both spring away from each other in an elastic manner. In the case of two photons a similar process -- the elastic collision -- has never been observed. Physicists ...

New data from particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), an "atom smasher" at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, reveals how the primordial ...