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Grade 6General Physics

what are oblique collisions

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12 Years agoGrade 6
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Profile image of Sandeep Pathak
11 Years ago
Oblique collisions, as opposed to head on collisions, are the collisions in which particles, after the collision, move at different angle to their initial direction of motion. Most collision in practice are oblique and they happen in two and three dimensions. For example, balls colliding in a game of billiards. The same conservation laws are applicable to such collisions as are applicable to head on collisions.