How did the type of ball used affect your results?

How did the type of ball used affect your results?

Type of Ball- The type of ball would greatly affect the experiment because different types of balls have different amounts of elasticity so some would bounce higher. However a rigid landing surface will absorb very little of the energy thus giving the ball a higher bounce height.

What factors affect a ball?

The combination of the material properties of a ball (surface textures, actual materials, amount of air, hardness/ softness, and so on) affects the height of its bounce.

What factors affect the efficiency of a bouncing ball?

What factors affect the efficiency of the bounce of a ball?

• The height at which the ball is dropped. We would use a meter rule to measure where we dropped the ball from and then what peak it reached whilst bouncing.
• The surface onto which it is dropped.
• The type of ball used.

How does the type of surface affect the height a ball will bounce?

One factor that can affect the basketball’s collision with the ground is the type of surface the ball collides with. When a basketball bounces off of a surface, some of its energy is absorbed by that surface. The more energy absorbed by the surface, the less that remains in the ball for it to bounce.

Why was it important to drop the ball from the same height three times?

Explanation: When all three balls are dropped from the same height, the rubber ball will bounce the highest because it has the greatest elasticity. This is because the higher the starting height of the ball, the higher the ball’s potential energy.

What do your results indicate about the relationship between temperature and bounce height of a ball?

As the gas molecules expand, their energy increases and they bounce around faster inside the ball. That’s why higher pressure leads to a higher bounce of the ball. Likewise, a lower temperature will lead to a lower pressure. Thus, lower pressure leads to a lower bounce of the ball.

How does the mass of a ball affect its bounce?

If the mass of the ball increases than the height the ball bounces will increase because the more mass an object has the more energy that gets build up when the ball gets released and makes the ball go higher.

Why does a ball bounce differently on different surfaces?

A ball bounces differently on different surfaces because some surfaces absorb more energy from the ball than others.

How does drop height affect bounce height?

If the drop height increases, then the resulting bounce height will also increase, because as the drop height increases, so does the gravitational potential energy which can be converted back into kinetic energy on the rebound.

How does a ball lose energy?

The ball slows down, deforms temporarily and shoots back up. The air in the ball acts like a spring—it gets compressed and expands again. During the collision, some of the ball’s energy is converted into heat. As a consequence, the ball shoots up with less energy than it had when it reached Earth.

What the ball loses its energy?

The total energy is constant between bounces if we neglect air friction. We have the kinetic energy of the ball and the potential energy due to gravity. For example, if a ball bounces 80% of its height on each bounce, then the ball is losing 20% of its energy on each bounce.