{"id":3575,"date":"2009-09-09T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3575"},"modified":"2009-09-09T03:00:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T08:00:59","slug":"seriously-inelastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3575","title":{"rendered":"Seriously Inelastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In physics we are usually taught that there are three types of collisions:  elastic collisions, inelastic collisions, and completely inelastic collisions.  Add to that the seriously inelastic collision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twistedphysics.typepad.com\/cocktail_party_physics\/2009\/08\/inelastic-collisions-courtesy-of-acme-inc.html\">Cocktail Party Physics:  nascar driver vs. wiley coyote: a real-life seriously inelastic collision<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not for the squeamish \u2014 you should stick to ideal situations; this coyote is decidedly not spherical, especially after the impact.  There is no truth to the rumor that NASCAR speedometers have a &#8220;pur\u00e9e&#8221; setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In physics we are usually taught that there are three types of collisions: elastic collisions, inelastic collisions, and completely inelastic collisions. Add to that the seriously inelastic collision. Cocktail Party Physics: nascar driver vs. wiley coyote: a real-life seriously inelastic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3575\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}