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Elastic Collisions
William Craver
Re-calculate x and y components based of a rotated axis, having the x axis parallel to the contact angle.
Now solve the x components of the velocity as if they were in one dimension using the equation;
Now find the x and y values for the un-rotated axis by equating for the values when the axis are rotated back.
Plugging in the other equations, we get:
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