eli5, when a moving object bounces off of another, does it momentarily stop moving?
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No. Velocity and speed are not defined at an instant but over and interval. it doesn’t make sense to say that an object was stationary or moving at time t. Something is moving if after delta time there is also a delta position . No matter how small you make the delta time around time of the collision there will always be a positive delta position.
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