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    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Courses/Merrimack_College/Conservation_Laws_Newton's_Laws_and_Kinematics_version_2.0/09%3A_C9)_Potential_Energy-_Graphs_and_Springs/9.04%3A_Advanced_Application-_Springs_and_Collisions
      At first sight, it may seem that all the information necessary to “reconstruct” the function U(x1x2) is available already, at least in graphical form: From Figure 4.3.1 you could get the value ...At first sight, it may seem that all the information necessary to “reconstruct” the function U(x1x2) is available already, at least in graphical form: From Figure 4.3.1 you could get the value of x2x1 at any time t; then from Figure 8.5.1 you can get the value of K (in the elastic-collision scenario) for the same value of t; and then you could plot U=EK (where E is the total energy) as a function of x2x1.

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