  The formation of correlations due to collisions in an interacting nucleonic
system is investigated. Results from one-time kinetic equations are compared
with the Kadanoff and Baym two-time equation with collisions included in Born
approximation. A reasonable agreement is found for a proposed approximation of
the memory effects by a finite duration of collisions. This form of collision
integral is in agreement with intuitive estimates from Fermi's golden rule. The
formation of correlations and the build up time is calculated analytically for
the high temperature and the low temperature limit. Different approximate
expressions are compared with the numerical results. We present analytically
the time dependent interaction energy and the formation time for Gau\ss{}- and
Yukawa type of potentials.
