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To: MyTwoCopperCoins

It depends on how they collided. Where their centers of gravity were relative to each other. Which parts stayed intact. Too many variables, too little information.


16 posted on 02/11/2009 9:24:05 PM PST by allmost
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>>>Too many variables, too little information.<<<

Exactly. The number of results depends on the number of fragments each broke into..the speed of each fragment, the mass of each fragment, the angle of impact.....

Yikes....my long forgotten Engineering 203 DiffEq just can't contemplate this any further.

44 posted on 02/11/2009 10:25:57 PM PST by HardStarboard ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule - Mencken knew Obama)
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