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>> Tell me, does this mean that there's no such thing as an inelastic
>> collission outside of textbooks?
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> 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.
No, I mean... it's not "really" possible for two solid objects to hit
each other without deforming at all.
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