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- https://phys.libretexts.org/Courses/Gettysburg_College/Gettysburg_College_Physics_for_Physics_Majors/08%3A_C8)_Conservation_of_Energy-_Kinetic_and_Gravitational/8.08%3A_Relative_Velocity_and_the_Coefficient_of_RestitutionVisually, you should notice that the distance between the red and blue curves is the same before and after (but not during) the collision; the fact that they cross accounts for the difference in sign ...Visually, you should notice that the distance between the red and blue curves is the same before and after (but not during) the collision; the fact that they cross accounts for the difference in sign of the relative velocity, which in turns means simply that before the collision they were coming together, and afterwards they are moving apart.
- https://phys.libretexts.org/Courses/Gettysburg_College/Gettysburg_College_Physics_for_Physics_Majors/08%3A_C8)_Conservation_of_Energy-_Kinetic_and_Gravitational/8.01%3A_Kinetic_EnergyFor a system of particles, we will treat kinetic energy as an additive quantity, just like we did for momentum, so the total kinetic energy of a system will just be the sum of the kinetic energies of ...For a system of particles, we will treat kinetic energy as an additive quantity, just like we did for momentum, so the total kinetic energy of a system will just be the sum of the kinetic energies of all the particles making up the system.
- https://phys.libretexts.org/Courses/Merrimack_College/Conservation_Laws_Newton's_Laws_and_Kinematics_version_2.0/08%3A_C8)_Conservation_of_Energy-_Kinetic_and_Gravitational/8.05%3A_Relative_Velocity_and_the_Coefficient_of_RestitutionVisually, you should notice that the distance between the red and blue curves is the same before and after (but not during) the collision; the fact that they cross accounts for the difference in sign ...Visually, you should notice that the distance between the red and blue curves is the same before and after (but not during) the collision; the fact that they cross accounts for the difference in sign of the relative velocity, which in turns means simply that before the collision they were coming together, and afterwards they are moving apart.
- https://phys.libretexts.org/Courses/Merrimack_College/Conservation_Laws_Newton's_Laws_and_Kinematics_version_2.0/08%3A_C8)_Conservation_of_Energy-_Kinetic_and_Gravitational/8.01%3A_Kinetic_EnergyFor a system of particles, we will treat kinetic energy as an additive quantity, just like we did for momentum, so the total kinetic energy of a system will just be the sum of the kinetic energies of ...For a system of particles, we will treat kinetic energy as an additive quantity, just like we did for momentum, so the total kinetic energy of a system will just be the sum of the kinetic energies of all the particles making up the system.
