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What happens to the energy of gas particles when an elastic collision takes place?

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Kinetic energy might transferred from one particle to another during an elastic collision, but i don't think that there is going to be any change in the total energy of the colliding particles. Because there are no forces of attraction or repulsion between gas particles .

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