COEFFICIENT OF RESTITUTION


Meaning of COEFFICIENT OF RESTITUTION in English

Physics.

the ratio of the relative velocity after impact to the relative velocity before the impact of two colliding bodies, equal to 1 for an elastic collision and 0 for an inelastic collision.

[ 1875-80 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .