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A maximum of eight feet and three inches. Unless you throw it in metric (ie. using kilos/sq cm) rather than imperial. In the latter case it will travel less: only one metre and thirteen centimetres at a maximum.

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13y ago

If you just drop it from that height, it will rebound somewhat less than six feet; this is because it is losing energy to the environment in the form of air resistance, friction and noise.

If, however, you fling it down to the ground from the same height, you could cause it to rebound much higher than the original six feet. Again, this is because the extra energy you added would've more than made up for the energy being lost from the fall.

In either case, the exact height will be partially dependent on the newness of the ball: newer balls are stiff, and may first need to be broken in; but a very old ball will have lost more of its springiness, and therefore be less efficient at bouncing.

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8y ago

If you drop it from a certain height the first bounce will be ideally about 90% of height, at best, on a smooth hard surface, or 0.9 h. On the tenth bounce it is 0.9 to the 10th power or about 35%,or 0.35 h.

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14y ago

Well it depends on the tennis ball and also how high you bounce . You never know . Unless you measure of corse ! Well I guess the world will never know ! Or will it??

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Color does not affect the bounce. Purple tennis balls bounce as high as green and yellow tennis balls. It really depends on the type of ball.

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8y ago

In general, it will rebound a bit less than the height from which it fell originally.

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8y ago

It is different for all tennis balls.

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3y ago

as high as the original one

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