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Past exam of the physics 1 paper of the University of Oxford 2018 9 ii Solution by
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For , the ratio in 9 tends to , givingThis recovers the nonrelativistic equal-mass elastic collision result: momentum conservation gives , while conservation of kinetic energy gives . Subtracting the squared momentum relation leaves . Exactly at there are no outgoing nonzero velocities defining such angles; the result is the limit through positive kinetic energies.
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