COLLIDING RODS - DYNAMICS AND RELEVANCE TO COLLIDING BALLS

Authors
AUERBACH D
Citation
D. Auerbach, COLLIDING RODS - DYNAMICS AND RELEVANCE TO COLLIDING BALLS, American journal of physics, 62(6), 1994, pp. 522-525
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
American journal of physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029505
Volume
62
Issue
6
Year of publication
1994
Pages
522 - 525
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9505(1994)62:6<522:CR-DAR>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
Colliding steel rods, unlike colliding steel balls, can lose kinetic e nergy during collisions. The kinetic energy lost appears as stress (vi brational) energy in the rods: We describe apparatus suitable for lect ure demonstrations and laboratory investigations of such collisions. W e explain how colliding rods interact. The reasons why steel balls col lide elastically remain mysterious.