What are elastic and inelastic collisions? After a head on elastic collision of two balls of mass m1 and m2, deduce an equation relating the final and initial velocities of both balls.
Elastic collisions conserve both linear momentum and kinetic energy, whereas inelastic collisions conserve only linear momentum.
The derivation will be shown on the virtual black board.
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