What is are elastic and inelastic collisions?
A collision is elastic when the total amount of kinetic energy in the system is conserved, there is no loss in kinetic energy.
A collision is inelastic when the total amount of kinetic energy in the system is not conserved, there is a loss in kinetic energy.
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