Your Group Will Receive One Golf Ball, One Tennis Ball, and One Ping Pong Ball. You Will
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Ball Drop Lab
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Your group will receive one golf ball, one tennis ball, and one ping pong ball. You will drop each ball 5 times from heights of one and two meters. You are to measure how high the ball bounces off of the floor for each trial and record it in the charts below. Once totally complete with all trial runs you are to create a bar graph showing the average height of rebound for each ball at both heights. DON’T FORGET UNITS!!!
Drop the golf ball five times from one meter off of the floor and five times from two meters. Record your data in the chart below.
What is the average height of rebound for the golf ball dropped at one meter?______
What is the average height of rebound for the golf ball dropped at two meters?______
Drop the tennis ball five times from one meter off of the floor and five times from two meters. Record your data in the chart below.
Height Trial 1 Trail 2 Trial 3
Height Trial 1 Trail 2 Trial 3
What is the average height of rebound for the tennis ball dropped at one meter?______
What is the average height of rebound for the tennis ball dropped at two meters?______
Drop the ping pong ball five times from one meter off of the floor and five times from two meters. Record your data in the chart below.
Height Trial 1 Trail 2 Trial 3 Trial 4 Trial 5
What is the average height of rebound for the ping pong ball dropped at one meter? ______What is the average height of rebound for the ping pong ball dropped at two meters? ______
In the space below, create a bar graph of your average heights for each ball at both one and two meters. (you should have six total bars) Color the golf ball data blue, the tennis ball data green, and the ping pong data yellow.
In the below diagrams, write PE or KE inside each ball, indicating whether the ball is experiencing kinetic energy or potential energy. Conclusion question:
Write a paragraph explaining why does the ball not return to the same height that it was dropped? (hint: consider the law of conservation of energy)