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How common are elastic collisions in the real world?
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How common are elastic collisions in the real world?

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Perfectly elastic collisions can happen only with subatomic particles. Everyday observable examples of perfectly elastic collisions don't exist—some kinetic energy is always lost, as it is converted into heat transfer due to friction.

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