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When a ball bounces, elastic potential energy is stored in the ball as it gets compressed upon hitting the ground. This potential energy is then converted into kinetic energy as the ball rebounds off the ground, causing it to bounce back up. The more elastic the ball, the higher it will bounce as it can better convert the stored potential energy back into kinetic energy.
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Is elastic energy useful in a bouncy ball or is it wasteful?
Elastic energy is useful in a bouncy ball because it allows the ball to deform and store the energy upon impact, which is then released as the ball bounces back. This enables the ball to bounce to a certain height and continue bouncing, making it a key factor in its design.
What energy transformation happens when you bounce a ball?
When you bounce a ball, the kinetic energy of the moving ball is transformed into elastic potential energy as the ball compresses. As the ball rebounds back up, this potential energy is converted back into kinetic energy. Some energy is also lost as heat and sound during the bouncing process.
How do balls bounce and what factors affect their bouncing ability?
Balls bounce due to the elastic properties of the materials they are made of. Factors that affect their bouncing ability include the material of the ball, the surface it bounces on, and the force with which it is thrown or dropped.
What is the energy transformation of bouncing a ball?
When you bounce a ball, the initial energy comes from the force applied to push the ball downward, which is potential energy converting to kinetic energy as the ball moves downward. Upon hitting the ground, the kinetic energy is transferred to the ball, causing it to rebound back up due to the elastic potential energy stored in the ball when it deforms upon impact.
Explain why the height of a bouncing ball decreases after each bounce?
because some of the energy that helps the ball to bounce is absorbed into the surface it is bouncing on (because the ball can be squashed) and so the energy deflected back up into the air again is less and less each time it bounces.
Is elastic energy useful in a bouncy ball or is it wasteful?
Elastic energy is useful in a bouncy ball because it allows the ball to deform and store the energy upon impact, which is then released as the ball bounces back. This enables the ball to bounce to a certain height and continue bouncing, making it a key factor in its design.
What energy transformation happens when you bounce a ball?
When you bounce a ball, the kinetic energy of the moving ball is transformed into elastic potential energy as the ball compresses. As the ball rebounds back up, this potential energy is converted back into kinetic energy. Some energy is also lost as heat and sound during the bouncing process.
Why does bouncing ball bounces back whereas a cricket ball don't?
It's because the surface area of a bouncing ball is more and it is thickly elastic
How do balls bounce and what factors affect their bouncing ability?
Balls bounce due to the elastic properties of the materials they are made of. Factors that affect their bouncing ability include the material of the ball, the surface it bounces on, and the force with which it is thrown or dropped.
When a bouncing ball stops bouncing where does the energy go?
Heat.
What is the energy transformation of bouncing a ball?
When you bounce a ball, the initial energy comes from the force applied to push the ball downward, which is potential energy converting to kinetic energy as the ball moves downward. Upon hitting the ground, the kinetic energy is transferred to the ball, causing it to rebound back up due to the elastic potential energy stored in the ball when it deforms upon impact.
Does the floor material affect a bouncing ball?
Yes
Explain why the height of a bouncing ball decreases after each bounce?
because some of the energy that helps the ball to bounce is absorbed into the surface it is bouncing on (because the ball can be squashed) and so the energy deflected back up into the air again is less and less each time it bounces.
What law of motion states that a ball cannot bounce perpetually?
It is not a law of motion that states this. If there was no friction or elastic losses the ball could go on bouncing. It is the slight loss of energy every time the ball bounces, due to compression of the ball and friction between it and the surface, that gradually causes its energy to be given up to the environment.
Why does a ball stop bouncing when the energy changes?
When a ball bounces, it transfers energy between kinetic and potential energy. As the ball loses energy to other forms like sound and heat during each bounce, eventually there isn't enough energy left to rebound, causing the ball to stop bouncing.
What type of energy transforms when a ball rolling off a table top and bouncing on floor until it stops?
The potential energy of the ball (due to its position on the table) transforms into kinetic energy as it rolls off the table and falls. When the ball hits the floor, some of the kinetic energy transforms into elastic potential energy as the ball compresses and then rebounds. Finally, friction and air resistance gradually dissipate the ball's kinetic energy into thermal energy, causing it to stop.
What movement is used in bouncing a ball?
kinetic or movement energy
