The factors which would qualify the system is thermodynamic system.
The way it relates to the elasticity of the collision.
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However, at the microscopic level, i.e. the properties of the individual particles then one can apply thermodynamics.
One can relate this to collision theory which considers two kinds of collisions the elastic and the in-elastic collisions. Practically, all collisions are in-elastic because some heat energy is always lost during the interaction and in those cases the behaviour of particles becomes uncertain and cannot be predicted.
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