Collisions and conservation laws

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Collisions and conservation laws provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 5 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

Overview
  • This free course, Collisions and conservation laws, begins by explaining elastic and inelastic collisions and then goes on to show how collisions may be quantified using the conservation of linear ...

Syllabus
    • Introduction
    • Learning outcomes
    • 1 Analysing collisions
    • 1 Analysing collisions
    • 2 Elastic and inelastic collisions
    • 2 Elastic and inelastic collisions
    • 3 Elastic collisions in one dimension
    • 3 Elastic collisions in one dimension
    • 3.1 Elastic collisions with a stationary target
    • 3.2 Elastic collisions in general
    • 3.3 Four special cases of general elastic collisions
    • 4 Elastic collisions in two or three dimensions
    • 4 Elastic collisions in two or three dimensions
    • 5 Inelastic collisions
    • 5 Inelastic collisions
    • 6 Collisions all around us
    • 6 Collisions all around us
    • 6.1 Collisions in space
    • 6.2 Collisions on the roads
    • 6.3 Collisions on a small-scale
    • 7 Relativistic collisions
    • 7 Relativistic collisions
    • 7.1 Relativistic momentum
    • 7.2 Relativistic kinetic energy
    • Conclusion
    • Glossary
    • Acknowledgements