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How do you do Conservation of Momentum and Energy?​

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The short answer is no.

A simple way to see this is to try and calculate the final velocities of two particles after an elastic collision. Pick an arbitrary starting configuration (such that they will interact), and calculate their initial kinetic energy, K.
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