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A ball is dropped vertically upon a slope. What type of progression do the distances between each consecutive bounce?

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A ball is dropped vertically upon a slope. What type of progression do the distances between each consecutive bounce?

what would be the progression

Assumptions:
-Ignore air resistance
-Assume all collisions to be perfectly elastic

posted Mar 22, 2017 by anonymous

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appears GP Since the vertical velocity increases with each bounce resulting in components of the velocity perpendicular to and along the surface increasing resulting in increase in velocity and the horizontal distance covered being proportional to the square root of the velocity with each bounce.

answer Mar 23, 2017 by Kewal Panesar



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