This program demonstrates the difference between elastic and inelastic collisions using examples of billiard balls and tennis balls. Learn the difference between a glancing collision and a perfectly inelastic collision and how to determine mass, velocity and momentum as Gibson demonstrates problems step by step.

Originally released by TMW Media Group, 2007. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on May 08, 2015.

Explaining Inelastic and Elastic Collisions (15:05); --Glancing Collision (6:25); -- Inelastic And Elastic Collisions: First Word Problem (7:08); -- Inelastic And Elastic Collisions: Second Word Problem (5:14); -- Inelastic And Elastic Collisions: Third Word Problem (11:41); .