Colliding Cars

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/CollidingCars/

The Wolfram Demonstrations Project contains thousands of free interactive visualizations, with new entries added daily.

Two cars collide at an intersection as shown in the figure. They have masses m1 and m2 and velocities v1 and v2 ; t is time. Assume that the collision is perfectly inelastic in two dimensions-the two objects stick together with a great deal of kinetic e...

Contributed by: Enrique Zeleny

Category:

Education

Tags:

• wolfram
• mathematica
• demonstrations
• interactive
• visualization
• angle
• radian
• mass
• velocity
• conservation
• of
• momentum
• inelastic
• collision
• free
• math
• computer
• science