Concept · from MIT 8.01SC Classical Mechanics

Elastic Collisions

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MIT's own material for this topic, in MIT's order: Lesson 27: Elastic Collisions [27.1-27.6].

Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 8.01SC Classical Mechanics, Fall 2016, Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty, Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, Dr. Michelle Tomasik, Prof. Anna Frebel, Prof. Vladan Vuletic — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Order: the items appear in the order MIT's own session page lists them; the sessions follow MIT's sequence. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 22, 2026. How RedLectern is built.

27.1 Worked Example: Elastic 1D Collision

MIT 8.01SC · Week 9: Collision Theory · This session on MIT OpenCourseWare ↗

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27.2 Relative Velocity in 1D

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27.3 Kinetic Energy and Momentum Equation

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27.4 Worked Example: Elastic 1D Collision Again

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27.5 Worked Example - Gravitational Slingshot

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27.6 2D Collisions

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MIT's problem set

Problem Set 9

MIT places Problem Set 9 at the end of Week 9: Collision Theory; it covers the whole part, not only this topic. Problem Set 9 on MIT OpenCourseWare ↗

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MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty, Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, Dr. Michelle Tomasik, Prof. Anna Frebel, Prof. Vladan Vuletic, 8.01SC Classical Mechanics, Fall 2016.

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