FYKOS Year 27 Series 4 Problem 5 — Another unsharpened one · FYKOS 27 #27.4.5

Physics · mechanics · thermodynamics

Problem

By how much shall the temperature of two identical steel balls rise after their collision?They move in the same direction with speeds

v_{1}=0,7c

and

v_{2}=0,9c

where

c

is the speed of light. Assume that the heat capacity is constant and that the balls are still solid.