Physics Of A Ball Physics Report

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Physics gives us an understanding of how the world operates, which is why the efficiency of a balls bounce can be understood through investing the principles of physics. Before a ball is dropped, it has gravitational potential energy acting upon it, when it is dropped the energy is transferred to kinetic energy. When the ball hits the ground the kinetic energy is transferred to elastic potential energy, once the ball regains its shape, it changes back to kinetic energy. As the ball rebounds higher into the air, kinetic energy is changed into gravitational potential energy. When a ball rebounds it doesn’t return to the original height it was dropped as energy has been wasted through heat in each transfer. In the first and fourth transfer of