Contest to win "A First Look at ASP.NET v2.0"

I'm feeling rather Canadian today, so the first person to correctly answer the following physics question gets my copy of A First Look at ASP.NET v.2.0.

On a frictionless 2D plane (like a pool table), a ball (B1) with an elasticity of E1 is traveling V1 units/second in the direction of A1 degrees. Another ball (B2) is also in this vacuum, with it's own elasticity (E2), velocity (V2), and direction (A2). If B1 is at (x1,y1) and B2 is at (x2,y2), and their paths will cause them to collide, where will they be after T seconds?

And if no one gets that question by today (which I swore I had in a Physics 101 class) ...

(x+5)^2  = 4x^2 -12x + 9

USA Only (unless you want to pick up postage :-D). Just leave the answer in the comments and drop me an email through the contact link with your address.

 

Published Wednesday, August 11, 2004 3:20 PM by Alex Papadimoulis
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Wednesday, August 11, 2004 4:52 PM by Brandon Behrens

# re: Contest to win "A First Look at ASP.NET v2.0"

The answer to the 2nd one is:

X=8 or X=-2/3
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 5:42 PM by Jason Mauss

# re: Contest to win "A First Look at ASP.NET v2.0"

Uhm...this is just a guess but, if it's frictionless, in a vacuum, no drag, then no matter how soft (or hard) you hit the ball, both balls will go in the same direciton...

Right Top Pocket. The cue ball fallows in.
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 7:50 PM by petal

# re: Contest to win "A First Look at ASP.NET v2.0"

http://www.plasmaphysics.org.uk/collision2d.htm

can't quite put it into words though....

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