Ball bouncing and rotating off of surface

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The simulation involves a ball dropped from a random height with an initial x velocity and zero y velocity, which bounces off a surface while spinning. For a non-spinning ball, static friction allows it to roll with a new velocity calculated using energy conservation, while the angular velocity is determined by the relationship ω = vx/r. When the ball has an initial spin, kinetic friction must be considered, affecting both linear and angular velocities upon impact. The discussion highlights that momentum is not conserved in the first case, and the ball's bounce height is influenced by the coefficient of restitution. The changes in linear and angular speeds depend on the elasticity of both the ball and the surface it impacts.
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I am working on a simulation where a ball is dropped from a random height with some x component of velocity and y velocity being zero. When the ball hits the surface it should bounce off with a spin. Here's what I've thought up of so far:

In the first case the \omega is zero. When the ball hits the ground there will be static friction and the ball will roll with a velocity of vx, energy conservation can be used to solve for the new velocity since the angular velocity will already be known (\omega = vx/r). The new components of linear velocity can be found by taking the new magnitude divided by the old magnitude and multiplying each component of velocity respectively.

For nonzero \omega I suppose that kinetic friction would have to be used.

I'm not sure that this is a correct way of going about it (momentum is not conserved [first case] and I also have a coefficient for which the y velocity decreases so that it bounces back to a lower height)

Any thoughts/resources on this would be of greatly appreciated.
 
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