Analyzed Collision Collisions between polyatomic and diatomic molecules, with acceleration vectors included. Two different collisions are shown, one behind the other Each collision is performed in time steps, and at each step the atoms making up the molecules are drawn. For example, the twisting red and green track on the lower left is a diatomic molecule, vibrating and rotating as it moved toward the edge of the image. Each of the two collisions actually took place in two dimensions, i.e the plane of the image. Therefore, when the track of one atom is hiding another, it is because that atom appeared there after the other had passed by. The overall effect is three dimensional, but the third dimension is really time, not depth Knowing this, it is possible to reconstruct much of the history of the collisions from the image. The acceleration arrows show how much and in what direction each atom was accelerating at each step The collision in the foreground proceeded from top to bottom, the molecules entering the scene from the top and upper left, and after colliding in the middle, exit on the bottom and lower rightAnalyzed Collision Collisions between polyatomic and diatomic molecules, with acceleration vectors included. Two different collisions are shown, one behind the other. Each collision is performed in time steps, and at each step the atoms making up the molecules are drawn. For example, the twisting red and green track on the lower left is a diatomic molecule, vibrating and rotating as it moved toward the edge of the image. Each of the two collisions actually took place in two dimensions, i.e. the plane of the image. Therefore, when the track of one atom is hiding another, it is because that atom appeared there after the other had passed by. The overall effect is three dimensional, but the third dimension is really time, not depth! Knowing this, it is possible to reconstruct much of the history of the collisions from the image. The acceleration arrows show how much and in what direction each atom was accelerating at each step. The collision in the foreground proceeded from top to bottom, the molecules entering the scene from the top and upper left, and after colliding in the middle, exit on the bottom and lower right