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  4. Which of the following potential energy curves possibly describe the elastic collision of two billiard balls? Here r is the distance between centres of the balls.

Q. Which of the following potential energy curves possibly describe the elastic collision of two billiard balls?
Here is the distance between centres of the balls.

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Solution:

Here the potential energy of a system of two masses exists only during collision. This potential energy is due to deformation.