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Types of Collision

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MIT's own material for this topic, in MIT's order: Lesson 26: Types of Collision [26.1-26.3].

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.

26.1 Momentum in Collisions

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

  1. 26.1 Momentum in CollisionsLecture video · transcript Watch

26.2 Kinetic Energy in Collisions

This session on MIT OpenCourseWare ↗

  1. 26.2 Kinetic Energy in CollisionsLecture video · transcript Watch

26.3 Totally Inelastic Collisions

This session on MIT OpenCourseWare ↗

  1. 26.3 Totally Inelastic CollisionsLecture video · transcript Watch

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 ↗

MIT publishes no solutions for this problem set.

Where this sits in MIT 8.01SC

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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.

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Fall 2016 · Open the original course on OCW ↗

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