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This video is about elastic and inelastic collisions in 1D, 2D and 3D and how the collision of conservation of energy with conservation of momentum, plus a secret direction, results in a completely predetermined behavior for most collisions.

REFERENCES

1D Collision Calculator:
http://hyperphysics.phyastr.gsu.edu/...

Elastic collision of spheres Wolfram
https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/El...

Oblique collisions of two 2D spheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...

Ballistic Pendulum
http://hyperphysics.phyastr.gsu.edu/...


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