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15 Bouncing Ball Physics assessment

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20 questions
This lab is your energy assessment. Answer questions one and two. Read the procedure. Copy data table in your notebook. Watch the video in the link and collect the data. You will enter the data and calculations in questions 3- 13. Then you will draw conclusions using the data in the remaining questions.
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Question 1
1.
Question 2
2.
Question 3
3.

Start height

Question 4
4.

Bouncy ball bounce height

Question 5
5.

Bouncy ball bounce height

Question 6
6.

Bouncy ball bounce height

Question 7
7.

Bouncy ball bounce height

Question 8
8.

Tennis ball bounce height

Question 9
9.

Tennis ball bounce height

Question 10
10.

Tennis ball bounce height

Question 11
11.

Tennis ball bounce height

Question 12
12.

Average bounce height of the bouncy ball (to find the average, add all four bounce heights together. Then divide the answer by four.)

Question 13
13.

Average bounce height of the tennis ball

Question 14
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Question 15
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Question 16
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Question 17
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Question 18
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Question 19
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Question 20
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Explain your choices

Is the average bounce height (7 and 8) _____ the original starting height of 100 cm?
less than
equal to
greater than
Complete the sentence correctly: When the ball reaches its average bounce height, it has ____ than it had while it was being held 1 m above the surface.
more gravitational potential energy
the same amount of gravitational potential energy
less gravitational potential energy
When will the ball have the greatest amount of kinetic energy?
just before it strikes the ground
before release
immediately after release
When the ball's gravitational potential energy is large, its kinetic energy is
small
large
When the ball is moving fast and it contains a large amount of kinetic energy, the amount of gravitational potential energy it contains will be
small
large
Which of the following forms is (are) produced as the ball strikes the floor?
sound (acoustic)
light (electromagnetic)
heat (thermal)
electrical
chemical
kinetic
nuclear
elastic potential