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Grade 11Mechanics

When a ball is dropped from some height, it rebound after striking against the floor. Explain why

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8 Years agoGrade 11
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8 Years ago
you know that energy cannot be destroyed.It can be transferred from one form to another. So here, when the call his the ground it has kinetic energy in it and when hitting the floor it gets converted into elastic energy. Therefore the ball bounces back