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An elastic collision is where both conservation of momentum and conservation of kinetic energy are observed.

For macroscopic objects, there is always dissipation and collisions are never perfectly elastic. Collisions between hard steel balls are nearly elastic.

Collisions between molecules and atoms approach perfectly elastic collisions.

2007-02-22 00:28:54 · answer #1 · answered by gebobs 6 · 0 0

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