What is the difference between plastic and elastic collision?
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For the best answers, search on this site https://shorturl.im/avwq4 It just depends upon the materials of the colliding bodies. When the collision occurs there are stresses and hence strains are developed in the bodies. If the stresses are in elastic range, the bodies regain shape and kinetic energy. If the material is in plastic range there is no regain in shape and inelastic collision occurs. You will have to study the stress-strain curves to understand this more. You will have to first calculate stress on the bodies, i.e. force/area, then see whether it is in elastic or plastic range or a combination of both.
In an elastic collision the prefix word perfectly being omitted, mechanical energy is conserved. In a plastic collision unlike the above there is some permanent deformation due to the collision. This deformation means that some energy was not conserved (ie lost in terms of the total mechanical energy)
