Inelastic collisions occurring at the point of intersection cause changes in the quantum states of the NO ... At long range the NO molecule has a slightly attractive potential for an Ar atom.

Segment 4C: Collisions In this segment, we differentiate between elastic and inelastic collisions. The conservation of momentum and the conservation of energy are explored as we do examples ...

Generally, collisions can be described as either elastic or inelastic. And it's going to be important to figure out which kind you're dealing with, because the math works in very different ways.

While attempting to understand inelastic three-body collisions, Greene and colleagues made the connection to work done in the 1970s by the Soviet theoretician Vitaly Efimov. He showed that at specific ...

Perhaps surprisingly, cars are more deadly, and it’s not even close. The number of people who die in car crashes in the United States averages more than 30,000 per year, and that’s been fairly ...