Collisions in One Dimension

Objectives:

To discover that momentum and energy are conserved in fully elastic collisions in one dimension.

To discover that momentum is conserved in inelastic collisions in one dimension, but energy is not.

Curriculum Alignment:

IB

  2.4  Momentum and impulse

AP Physics 1:

5.4 Conservation of Linear Momentum

AP Physics C:Mechanics:

  4.3 Conservation of Linear Momentum, Collisions

IGCSE 

  1.6 Momentum

NGSS 

   HS-PS2-2 Forces and interaction

MEB

  11.1.7. Thrust and linear momentum