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Chapter 11

Billiard Ball Physics

What we'll cover in this chapter:

  • Mass
  • Momentum
  • Conservation of momentum

As you might expect in a technical book like this, things start off simple and gradually become more complex. With this chapter, you reach a pinnacle of complexity. Not that the rest of the chapters after this are all downhill, but this one requires that you don't skimp on the material that came earlier. That said, we'll walk through the concepts step by step, and if you've followed along reasonably well up to now, you should be fine.

Specifically, this chapter focuses on momentum: what happens to the momentum of two objects that collide, ...

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