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Why is that when a small marble hits another small marble, it moves, but when a small marble hits a bigger marble, it does not?​

User Peter Branforn
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Answer:

It depends on the masses of the marbles that collide. The figure shows a marble with a smaller mass hitting a marble with a larger mass. The larger marble is at rest. After the collision, the marble with a smaller mass bounces off in the opposite directions

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