Collision Theory Conclusion

For my third term paper, I plan on discussing collisions and will relate this to my real life experiences, previous knowledge, movies, books, or tv shows, and personal/ career ambitions. As we discussed in class, collision can either occur in one-dimension or two-dimensions. Collision is based off the concept of momentum. Momentum is conserved in any type of collision. Momentum is found by taking an object's mass and multiplying it by its velocity. There are three types of collisions. There is inelastic, perfectly inelastic, and elastic. Inelastic occurs when when the collision does not conserve kinetic energy. An example might be dropping a ball from a certain height and because of inelastic collisions, it won't get as high as the initial spot at which it was dropped. It is the same thing with a perfectly inelastic collision, except the objects will stick together and the the maximum amount of kinetic energy is lost. In an elastic collision, the kinetic energy is conserved. An good example to see is watching pool, when the balls collide, it is elastic because they bounce off of each

The collision theory is a theory used to predict the rates of chemical reactions, particularly for gases (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). For the collision theory to work, atoms or molecules have to come together or collide with one another. Not all collisions with result in a chemical change. For chemical change to occur, the lowest required internal energy must equal the activation energy required for this change to occur, or the act of breaking one or more chemical bond. The collision theory in chemistry and collision in physics are closely related. Although in chemistry, we aren't particularly worried about the mass and the velocity of the molecules or atoms like we are in physics. In chemistry, we are more concerned with the rates of chemical reactions caused by this collision of atoms or