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Grade 9General Physics

Will a ball slide down a lumpy hill over the same path it rolls down the hill?

Profile image of rishav kumar
12 Years agoGrade 9
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Profile image of Vikas TU
6 Years ago
A ball rolling down the hill will go slower than a ball sliding down the hill, because of its angular momentum. So if it rolls down the hill and into a banked curve, it will take the curve lower on the bank, and thus have a different path.