Conservation of Momentum: If objects within a system collide, the momentum of the individual objects before and after a collision may change, but the total momentum of the system will remain constant.
1. Describe what happened to the top ball during the double-ball drop experiment.
During the double-ball drop experiment, the top ball moved up while the bottom ball moved down. During the initial drop, the balls are released and fall to the ground with the same acceleration. However, the instant that the bottom ball hits the ground, the two balls experience the first collision. In order to conserve energy and momentum during the elastic collision, the collision causes the top ball to bounce upward with the same speed it had before hitting
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Meanwhile, the small rubber ball had an initial rebound height of 13 centimeters and an average rebound height of 59.25 centimeters and 97.25 centimeters respectively as the top ball. The large rubber ball recorded an initial height of 20 centimeters and an average rebound height of 36.5 centimeters as the top ball. The ping pong ball recorded an initial rebound height of 20.5 centimeters and average rebound heights of 56.5 centimeters and 63.25 centimeters respectively. Lastly, the glass marble recorded and initial rebound height of 17.25 centimeters and an average rebound height of 74 centimeters and 55 centimeters respectively as the top ball. Based on the data, the small rubber ball performed the best as the top ball, as it recorded a high of 97.25 centimeters when bounced off the basketball and 59.25 centimeters when off the large rubber ball. Even when bounced off of balls varying in mass, the small rubber was still able to reach above-average heights, likely attributed to the relatively small mass and therefore inertia of the small rubber ball to be easily displaced and gain
Summary of “Forces on a baseball” by NASA.gov The article, “Forces on a baseball,” by NASA.gov, presents the facts on what makes a baseball fly threw the air a baseball. NASA.gov presents readers with the facts and breakdown drag,lift and weight, while explaining the air and temperature can affect how high and far the ball goes. The article references Newton’s first law of motion, “According to Newton's first law of motion, a moving baseball will keep moving in a straight line unless it is affected by another force.” As the article concludes, the author highlights that if the ball is perfectly round and smooth, its center of pressure will be exactly in the middle point.
PACE TECHNICAL PAPER ROUGH DRAFT This experiment was conducted in an attempt to have wooden baseball bats brought back to NCAA and high school and children’s leagues, too. The experiment idea was to set up a pendulum where the bat swung down and hit the ball in the same spot every time. Then I measured where the ball hit the ground.
Some balls nower days are made the same way but they are very expensive. the “Haskell” performed better than the “gutty” and was way cheaper to make. Initially these surface moldings took the form of grooves (which we have on the golf ball today) and later bumps. The "bump" design was known as the bramble pattern, due to a resemblance of a blackberry. In 1910, balls with small dimples were made.
How does temperature affect the bounce of a tennis ball My science fair project is about tennis balls and temperature. I chose this topic because I am interested in how temperature affects how high a tennis ball bounces. When the ball hits the floor it expands and when it comes up then it comes back up it contrasts. My question that is going to be answered is,how does temperature affect the bounce of a tennis ball?
At the beginning, the game was played with peach baskets or 18 inch square boxes hanging on the balconies of the running tracks of most indoor facilities. During that time the height of the basket was set at 10 feet, which still is today. Apparently, the game has slowed down by the peach baskets and boxes since the ball had to be taken out from them after every goal, either by someone on the running track or by ladder. Heavy woven wire rims replaced the peach baskets first in 1892. Then, after a year, in 1893 cast iron rims were used.
The physics of baseball are very interesting. In baseball pitching probably uses the most amount of physics. The different pitches that a pitcher throws involve physics. Even the simplest pitch, the fastball, uses physics.
The force of the pass was found by Newton’s 2nd law, F=ma, where .1 kg was multiplied by 10 m/s^2. If the force of the pass was 1 N, this means that the stick caught the ball at +1 N, and the ball ‘caught’ the stick at -1 N. The force has the same magnitude and is constant and equal during the pass, but have different directions. Newton’s 3rd Law relates to the equation, momentum= mass X velocity.
It doesn’t really matter on what type of ball, physically, it mostly points to whether you’re strong enough to survive this elimination game of
When the ball hits the ground its kinetic energy is turned into elastic energy this makes the ball flatten out. Then that elastic energy is converted right back into kinetic energy when it goes up. So the more kinetic energy a ball gets when it is dropped the more energy it will have when it hits the ground which will give it more energy when it is headed back up therefore making it bounce higher.
In conclusion, air pressure has a direct influence on the distance that the ball will travel when thrown. The hypothesis stated that if pressure is added to the football, then the distance the ball projects will increase when distance is a function of pressure. Based on the data that was collected from the experiment, the hypothesis was supported. When the football had more air inside, it went the farthest distance compared to the other two pressures that data was collected from.
One of the other examples of physics that is used in lacrosse is momentum, momentum plays an important role in lacrosse because without it we wouldn’t be able to pass, shoot, or catch the ball. The way that we change the momentum when we are playing is by the amount of push and pull that we use on our sticks, this causes how much energy is transferred into the head of our lacrosse sticks which then turns into velocity and the more momentum we have the high velocity we put into our passes, catches, and
The plastic ball is the one that creates the least amount of friction. The surface of it is very smooth. For more advanced bowlers they will use this kind for a spare ball. It is very predictable to tell when it will curve. The Urethane ball is made of a more durable plastic.
As the marble slides down the first drop it will lose much of its potential energy corresponding to the loss of height. The marble subsequently gains kinetic energy – kinetic energy is contingent to the mass and the velocity of an object. The marble speeds up as it loses height, consequently, their potential energy is transformed into kinetic energy. Newton’s Second Law states that an object’s net external force is equal to its mass times its acceleration; simply, the acceleration is proportional to the force applied and also the mass of the object.
Its material and light-weight allows air resistance and its spin to have significant effects on its motion when airborne. Air resistance is the result of the projectile’s leading surface colliding with air molecules, and it is affected by the velocity of the object and its cross-sectional area. Specifically, a higher velocity and greater cross-sectional area results in greater air resistance. Additionally, ping pong balls allow bounce quite high when they strike a surface. 3.1.2 Physics of projectile motion Since the launcher will launch the ping pong ball so that it launches with a parabolic trajectory, the physics behind projectile motion comes into play.