When a ball bounces it does not bounce all the way back up, why is this? When a ball drops, it will bounce back up, but not all the way back up, because energy is lost in heat, sound, gravity, and air resistance. Energy is lost in so many different ways that the ball does not have enough energy to bounce back up to its starting point. So if you drop a ball and let it bounce, it will never bounce up to its original point without external energy. The point of my experiment is to list and document the…
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