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Title: Renamed: Collisions
Post by: amanda88 on March 24, 2004, 06:21:36 AM

hi...what is the meaning of collisions? ???

Title: Re:questions
Post by: Mitch on March 24, 2004, 06:49:12 AM

It's when 2 molecules collide with eachother. If they collide at the right angle and frequence they could combine and make a new molecule.

Title: Re:questions
Post by: gregpawin on March 24, 2004, 03:52:12 PM

Then you have your elastic and inelastic collisions which simply describe whether or not the kinetic energy before and after the collision are the same.  So you might have two gas molecules or whatever just bounce off of each other with no interaction, or some of the energy can go into deforming each other/break bonds.