Table of Contents
- 1 Which ball will hit the ground first if dropped at same time at the same height?
- 2 What will happen to two balls of different masses dropped from the same height at the same time if air resistance is neglected?
- 3 Why does two objects fall at the same time?
- 4 How high should you drop a soccer ball?
- 5 Why do large balls bounce higher than small balls?
Which ball will hit the ground first if dropped at same time at the same height?
Therefore, when both objects are dropped from the same height and at the same time, the heavier object should hit the ground before the lighter one.
Does a big ball fall faster than a small ball?
Answer 2: No, heavier objects fall as fast (or slow) as lighter objects, if we ignore the air friction. The air friction can make a difference, but in a rather complicated way. The gravitational acceleration for all objects is the same.
Which ball will hit the ground first if dropped at the same time and at the same height in the absence of friction?
The metal ball will reach the ground first before the wooden ball as metal ball has more mass and Gravitational force is directly proportional to mass of the object.
What will happen to two balls of different masses dropped from the same height at the same time if air resistance is neglected?
Because Earth gives everything the exact same acceleration, objects with different masses will still hit the ground at the same time if they are dropped from the same height. The less massive the object is, the more the force of air resistance slows the object down as it falls.
What has to happen for a feather and a ball to fall at the same rate?
What has to happen for a feather and a ball to fall at the same rate? You have to take away the air resistance.
Why do two balls fall at the same time?
Gravity is the force that causes things to fall to earth. Gravity causes everything to fall at the same speed. This is why balls that weigh different amounts hit the ground at the same time.
Why does two objects fall at the same time?
Consequently, the acceleration is a=Fm=GMR2, which is independent of the mass of the object. Hence any two objects that are subject only to the force of gravity will fall with the same acceleration and hence they will hit the ground at the same time.
Does a larger ball fall faster?
Heavier things have a greater gravitational force AND heavier things have a lower acceleration. It turns out that these two effects exactly cancel to make falling objects have the same acceleration regardless of mass.
What happens when two balls are dropped at the same time?
In ideal case, when no resistive forces are present then both the balls will reach the ground simultaneously. This is because acceleration due to gravity is independent of mass of the falling object.
How high should you drop a soccer ball?
A person was required to drop the ball at certain heights: 20-200 cm, in increments of 20 cm. The ball’s initial height was recorded from the base of the ball at a given height; while observing videos after data collection, the ball’s rebound height was recorded, and then divided by the initial height to calculate the rebound percentage.
Can a ball bounce back to the same height it dropped?
If a ball were perfectly elastic, and if here was no air resistance or other ways of losing energy, then a it should bounce back to the same height that you dropped it from no matter how big it is. Reality is a bit more complicated, of course. For example:
Why does the height of the ball matter?
The height matters because the higher it is dropped from, the more force there is to compress the ball. When a ball is dropped, it’s velocity increases, and it’s acceleration is 9.81 m/s/s down. As the ball hits the ground, it’s velocity decreases until it reaches 0.
Why do large balls bounce higher than small balls?
The air friction is approximately proportional to the square of the radius at high speeds, and to the radius at low speeds. So for bigger balls the ratio of gravitational to frictional force goes up, compared to small balls. That would tend to make the large balls bounce higher.