Does the amount of air in a basketball affect its bounce?

Answer Yes. A basketball with no air will not bounce as much as a basketball with the right amount of air .

The pressure from the air inside of it

Yes, wth the height of the bounce increasing with the amount of air in it. At flat basketball will hardly bounce at all. To make it bounce you need to pump it up with air until it is full (when you can't press your fingers into it and it is very hard).

Because when something is not inflated fully then it is partially flat. Which will affect its ability to bounce

The air in a basketball lets the basketball bounce.

The more air the higher it will bounce, the less air the lower it will bounce assuming the exact same amount of force is applied in each case. You do not want a ball that bounces too easily or one that is hard to make bounce. The reason it bounces higher with more air is because the outer cover is drawn tighter when more air is applied internally. The tighter the cover the higher it will bounce because it has more spring to it.

Several factors affect the bounce of a basketball including the height that it was dropped from. The bounce factor includes elasticity, air pressure, force applied to it, and how rigid the surface is that the ball is bounced on.

Helium will make a basketball bounce higher because when it is put into the basketball the air particles move faster and faster causing the basketball to bounce higher.

will a basketball or a tennis ball bounce higher with more air?

The more air pressure within a basketball, the more capable it is to bounce efficiently, rather than a basketball with little air pressure.

Because it has air in it.

put in enough to make it bounce but not to much!!hope you like my help good luck with your basketball!! ;)

A basketball need a lot of air because if it does not have any air how can it bounce.

the ball wont bounce high enough for you to bounce it.

The leather is put on the basketball for grip, wear and tear, and consistency. The bounce of the ball comes from the rubber bladder that the leather is surrounding. Air pressure and the quality of the ball effect it's bounce more than the leather.

yes it will imangine a flat basketball will it bounce? not at all.

Yes, it does with out air pressure the basketball will not bounce high as it's supposed to. It might also not bounce at all.

yess because it couldn't bounce if it didn't have air.

No. The bounce height may depend on a variety of factors, especially the hardness of the floor, and the properties of the ball, including the amount of air it has.

A flat ball doesn't have a lot of air in it, so it doesn't bounce that well, where as a full basketball has less resistance, and therefore bounces higher. Basically, the difference is the amount of air in the basketball.

Yes. A full basketball with medium to high pressure will clearly bounce higher than a flat basketball with low pressure.

Because, you see, the basketball is filled with AIR. Which makes it bounce.

A basketball needs to be filled with air because if you didn't it wouldn't bounce.

Yes. More air in the basketball will make it bounce higher. Yes. Replacing the air with even a lighter gasses, such as helium, results in a higher bounce. It follows that, removing air or using heavier gasses to inflate a ball will result in a lower bounce. YES. Adding more air to the ball lessens the particles in the ball to bounce around. Putting more air in a basket ball will definitely make it bounce higher. If you put light gasses in it like helium then it will bounce even higher. If you take air out of it, it will bounce lower.After a while of putting air in a basketball it starts to bounce lower.

because of convection currents and the warm air rises and the cold air sinks down causing the basketball to not bounce as high