
A smooth sphere of mass collides elastically with an identical sphere at rest. The velocity of before collision is in a direction making with the line of centres at the time of impact.




Important Questions on Impulse and Collision
A particle of mass makes an elastic head-on collision with a stationary particle of mass If initial kinetic energy is moving particle is , then during the impact,

The diagram shows a string of equally placed beads of mass , separated by distance . The beads are free to slide without friction on a thin wire. A constant force acts on the first bead initially at rest till it makes collision with the second bead. The second bead then collides with the third and so on. Suppose that all collisions are elastic.







Two masses and of and are connected by a long inextensible string which passes over a massless and frictionless pulley. Initially the height of both the masses from the ground is same and equal to metre. When the masses are released, mass hits the ground and gets stuck to the ground. Consider the length of the string as large, so that the pulley does not obstruct the motion of masses and
