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> Presumably you want it to not be *too* flexible though, lest the power
> steering mechanism stops working. It would be nice to still be able to
> steer. ;-)
Well yes, I assume we're talking about "flexible" enough to allow a tiny jet
of hydraulic fluid to open under really vigorous steering, not a bit of
rubber that's going to twist through 180 degrees :-)
> Tell me, does this mean that there's no such thing as an inelastic
> collission outside of textbooks?
YOu mean no such thing as an *elastic* collision? No, not at a macroscopic
level. Any collision is going to lose some energy to sound, heat, plastic
deformation etc, some things get pretty close though.
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