When a Particle Suffers a Head-On Elastic Collision with Another

Multiple Choice

When a particle suffers a head-on elastic collision with another particle, initially at rest, the greatest fraction of kinetic energy is transferred if:

A) the incident particle is initially traveling very fast
B) the incident particle is traveling very slowly
C) the incident particle is much more massive than the target particle
D) the incident particle is much less massive than the target particle
E) the incident and target particle have the same mass