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Reflection from a translating planar piston
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Elastic collision
2026-10-20
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A
massive
piston
at
velocity
−
u
x
^
reverses
a
particle'
s
normal velocity
in its own frame. Transforming back gives
v
x
↦
−
v
x
−
2
u
, with transverse components unchanged. The particle
energy
gain is
2
m
u
v
x
+
2
m
u
2
.
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Past exam of the physics B course of the University of Cambridge
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2015
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Paper 2
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Section C
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