coefficient of restitution
This formula is Newton's law of restitution. The coefficient of restitution always satisfies 0 ≤ e ≤ 1. When e = 0, the balls remain in contact after the perfectly inelastic collision. When e = 1, the collision is perfectly elastic: there is no loss of kinetic energy.
- representation
- representation
- representative
- representative sample
- residual
- residual variation
- residue
- residue class
- resistant statistic
- resistive force
- resolution
- resonance
- response bias
- response variable
- rest frame
- rest mass
- restriction
- resultant
- retardation
- retraction
- reverse mathematics
- reverse triangle inequality
- reversion to the mean
- revolution
- revolve