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Educational Use
Students determine the coefficient of restitution (or the elasticity) for super balls. Working in pairs, they drop balls from a meter height and determine how high they bounce. They measure, record and repeat the process to gather data to calculate average bounce heights and coefficients of elasticity. Then they extrapolate to determine the height the ball would bounce if dropped from much higher heights.
- Subject:
- Career and Technical Education
- Physical Science
- Physics
- Technology and Engineering
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- TeachEngineering
- Provider Set:
- TeachEngineering NGSS Aligned Resources
- Author:
- Mark Moldwin (now at University of Michigan, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences) (This activity was classroom tested in second grade classes at El Rincon Elementary and Linwood E. Howe Elementary School within the Culver City Unified School District in California with additional support from a NSF Geosciences Education grant.)
- Science and Engineering of the Environment of Los Angeles (SEE-LA) GK-12 Program,
- Date Added:
- 09/18/2014