Elastic and Inelastic Collisions

Compare momentum conservation and kinetic energy changes for two carts in one-dimensional collisions.

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Elastic and Inelastic Collisions

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Keyboard: Space toggles play, R resets, ] steps forward, [ returns to the initial state.

A core dynamics simulation for seeing how mass, velocity, and restitution determine post-collision motion. The model uses the conservation laws for one-dimensional impacts and renders the result through the Rapier 2D engine surface.

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