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Im only in Physics not AP. i haven't gotten into depth about things like that. were only in basic. But the teacher said thermal was not a huge factor

the only other i can think of is thermal but that's on a very small scale. And its not rotational even though it is a ball. I'm kinda stuck on this question

I think its because when the ball bounces back up since it has elastic potential energy. But it doesn't reach the same height it was dropped from because it loses kinetic energy and also gravitational potential.

When a basketball is dropped then bounces up it reaches 0 kinetic energy, but it doesn't reach original height it was dropped from. Why does this not violate the Law of Conservation of Energy?