Rubber Sheet Bowling Ball And Tennis Ball Experiment

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Rubber sheet bowling ball and tennis ball experiment.

If the cloth cover wears down to say 2 mm thickness the ball will become softer. Kick a tennis ball and a bowling ball with the same amount of force the heavy bowling ball is going to move slower and go a shorter distance than the tennis ball a heavier object requires more force to set it in motion. Price 100. The bowling ball has a greater mass so there s more stuff for gravity to act on.

A used ball is generally softer than a new ball since ball stiffness depends on the wall thickness and the amount of air inside the ball. But it still doesn t fall any faster. The rubber is about 3 mm thick and the cover is also about 3 mm thick. As a continuation of the theme of potential and kinetic energy this lesson introduces the concepts of momentum elastic and inelastic collisions.

In that sense gravity is pulling on it more. This is nothing at all like the way general relativity works. Students can use the associated activities to explore these concepts by bouncing assorted balls on different surfaces and calculating the. Imagine a perfectly flat big rubber sheet that has a bowling ball in the center of it so it creates a slope.

In the classic classroom rubber sheet demonstration the marble rolls toward the bowling ball because the earth s gravity causes it to roll down hill. Newton s third law of motion for every action there is a reaction that is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction. Many sports and games such as baseball and ping pong illustrate the ideas of momentum and collisions. It would follow a curved path.

After it has been dropped the tennis ball bounces back somewhat according to its unique drop height. You can calculate this gravitational force as the product of the mass m and the gravitational field g. I have never like it as an analogy either. General relativity requires a curvature of space time not just space.

The bowling ball has a greater mass so it also has a greater gravitational force.