When particle suffers oblique elastic collision with another particle of equal masss and initially at rest thwle two particle in mutually perpendicular direction?
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Conservation of Momentum - momentum is always conserved.
2. Conservation of Energy - Kinetic Energy is conserved in an elastic collision.
I am so glad you asked. I solved this as an extra credit problem in High School Physics in 1978. For some reason, I was pretty proud of it. So I laminated it and keep it around the pool table to help with my shots.
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