Can a ball bounce higher on different surfaces?

Answer 1

Soft surfaces (like a pillow) absorb the kinetic energy of the ball due to their plasticity. This makes the ball bounce less. Hard surfaces (like wood, stone) absorb very little energy from the ball due to their rigidity and hence the ball bounces more.

Answer 2

Some of the energy of a falling ball gets absorbed by the surface that it strikes. The absorbed energy, since it came from the ball, is not available for the rebound. This is also true of the surface substrate (what the surface is attached to).

Additional Information and Examples:

1. A ball dropped on concrete will bounce higher than a ball dropped on thick foam rubber, because the concrete will absorb very little of the ball's energy, while the thick foam rubber will absorb most of it.

2. If the same piece of carpet is laid on a concrete substrate and a substrate of thick foam rubber, the ball will bounce higher from the concrete substrate than the thick foam rubber substrate.

3. Try dropping the ball on water (stretchy surface and amorphous substrate).

4. Float the piece of carpet on water. Drop the ball on it.

Answer 3

For starters, it depends on the hardness and smoothness of the surface it bounces off BUT more of the time, the bounce is affected by the type of bailiff you made a ball completely from wool for example and bounced Ito will find there is little or no bounce but if you bounced a rubber ball on the same surface, it will go much hoaxer's of the ball also counts due to air resistance on the upwards return of the ball after bouncing.

Answer 4

some balls are made of different materials, like one may be made of rubber and one may be made of plastic, if you drop them from the same heght and measure how high they each bounced, the rubber ball is gonna bounce higher. Also it can have to do with the size of the ball, ir you have two rubber balls, one 8 cm. in diameter and one 16 cm. in diameter and you drop them from the same height the bigger one is going to bounce higher. Hope i helped :-)

Answer 5

A probable reason can be that when the surface is smooth , the normal vector is straight up and ball bounces . But when the surface is rough , it has random inclinations at different points and hence , different normal vactors act in random directions and cancel each other out.

Answer 6

I am assuming you are talking about tennis. On a grass surface, the ball will bounce fast. On clay courts, the ball will bounce slower than on grass. On a hard court, the speed of the ball bounce will be in between clay and grass.

Answer 7

The differences are mostly due to surface friction.

Answer 8

because the feces of the monkey smells so much that the ball doesn't want to bounce any more.

Answer 9

Yes. the harder surface absrbs less of the balls energy, therefore the bal wil bounce higher.