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and move at a common speed.
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The common speed should be such that the total momentum
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agrees with what you had before.
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That's called "totally inelastic."
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The other category is called "totally elastic."
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In a totally elastic collision, the kinetic energy is conserved.
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That you can write as
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the following relation involving quadratic things,
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You can, it turns out,
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juggle this equation and that equation
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and solve for v1' and v2'.
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Well, I'll tell you what the answer is.