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18 paź 2021 · The principal energy loss when a basketball ball bounces off the ground is most likely due to the non-adiabatic compression of the ball amterial and the air inside the ball - some of the energy is converted to heat and cannot be recovered.
15 wrz 2015 · The loss of mechanical energy can be calculated by subtracting the final mechanical energy from the initial mechanical energy. The formula is: Loss of mechanical energy = Initial mechanical energy - Final mechanical energy.
14 sty 2022 · How does a bouncing ball loses energy? Are there different energy loss regimes, depending on the ball material/structure (e.g., tennis ball vs. a solid caoutchouc) and the surface from which it bounces (e.g., metal vs. concrete; assuming for now a solid surface)?
On the next bounce, this energy transfer repeats, but the ball doesn’t rise back up to the height it fell. At some point along its path, it lost energy. In this experiment, you will investigate the energy of a bouncing ball and seek to determine where, when, and how it loses energy.
After the bounce, the ball and the ground or floor have absorbed some of that energy and have become warmer and have made a noise. This energy lost in the bounce is a more or less constant fraction of the energy of the ball before the bounce.
In this lab you will be exploring energy conservation during collisions. You will do this by studying how a ball bounces (‘collides’) on different surfaces, and by calculating the energy lost (to sound, to friction, etc.) from each collison with the ground.
In a perfectly inelastic collision between two objects of identical mass (\(m_1 = m_2\)) and identical velocities (\(\vec{v}_1 = \vec{v}_2\)), what is the final energy? Express your answer as a fraction of the total initial energy.
