2. Elastic collisions

2.1 General

Consider the elastic collision between an ion a of velocity v _a and a nucleus A at rest. In accordance with figure 16 , a is scattered in a direction making an angle θ with its initial direction and acquires a velocity $v_{a}^{'}$ and A "recoils" in a direction ϕ with a velocity $v_{A}^{'}$ .

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