Elastic Collisions in Two Dimensions

This 19 slide PowerPoint presentation covers the content required for the
A-Level mathematics topic “Elastic Collisions in Two Dimensions”.

I developed it in order to teach the topic to my students.

The content is based on the Edexcel FM1 specification, and chapter 5 of the Edexcel FM1 textbook.

I have included extensive teacher notes with each slide.

I have extensively used PowerPoint’s animation effects. All slides use the “appear” animation to build up the content in a clear, meaningful manner.
I also used the “zoom”, “free motion” and “fade” animations to animate the collisions. This, I think, brings the material to life.

The slides contain all the required theory, and detailed, worked examples for each of the three sections:

• Oblique Impacts with a Fixed Surface

• Successive Oblique Impacts

• Oblique Impacts of Smooth Spheres

Most examples are either fully original or extensively adapted/ modified from examples within the Edexcel textbook.

I have provided two free previews that you can download separately.
The first is an editable PowerPoint presentation containing an example of two spheres colliding, and concludes with an animation of the collision.
The second is a PowerPoint slideshow containing an example of a sphere colliding with a fixed surface. This example guides students through the use of the vector dot product.

I hope you find the PowerPoint very useful in your teaching practice.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any feedback.

Regards

Gerard