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Consider a completely elastic head-on collision between two particles that have the same mass and the same speed. What are the velocities of the particles after the collision?
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Consider a completely elastic head-on collision between two particles that have the same mass and the same speed. What are the velocities of the particles after the collision?

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The magnitude of their velocities will be the same but their direction will be reversed.

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