Inelastic Collision
An inelastic collision, in contrast to an elastic collision, is a collision in which kinetic energy is not conserved due to the action of internal friction.A special case of this is sometimes called the "perfectly" inelastic collision. In a perfectly inelastic collision, two objects collide and stick together. The momentum of the objects before the collision is conserved, but the total energy is not conserved. The final velocity of the combined objects depends on the masses and velocities of the two objects that collided. The units for the initial and final velocities are m/s, and the unit for mass is kg.
(mass of object 1)(initial velocity 1)+(mass of object 2)(initial velocity 2)= (mass of 1)(mass of 2)(final velocity of combined object)
m1v1,i+m2v2,i=(m1+m2)vf
m1= mass of a first object (kg)
m2= mass of a second object (kg)
v1,i= initial velocity of the first object (m/s)
v2,i= initial velocity of the second object (m/s)
vf= final velocity of the combined objects (m/s)
let value of m1 = a, m2=b , v1,i = x, v2,i=y and vf = z
