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Q29  Which of the following potential energy curves in Fig. 6.18 cannot possibly describe the elastic collision of two billiard balls? Here r is the distance between centres of the balls.

        

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The potential energy of the system depends inversely on the separation between the balls. Thus the potential energy will decrease as the balls will come closer and will become zero as they touch each other.

Thus elastic collision is best described only by the graph (v).

 

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