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Closed form of the position of a bouncing ball
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[QUOTE="Bibibis, post: 6177935, member: 661953"] [B]Homework Statement:[/B] This is not a physics homework per se, but I'm implementing an explosion shader in OpenGL for class and I want the triangles to bounce when hitting the y=0 plane. In my current setup it is not possible to save the triangle's velocity or position and so each frame I compute the position of each triangle with a ballistic equation, and for now I simply set y=0 for triangles that would go below the plane y=0. Is there a closed form for the position (or rather height as the x axis is irrelevant here) of a bouncing ball, and if not why can't there be one? [B]Relevant Equations:[/B] Ballistic equation: ##y = g * t * t + v_0 * t + y_0## Elasticity of ball: ##e## Velocity after bounce: ##v_{after} = e * -v_{before}## I know that the height before the first bounce will be ##y = g * t * t + v_0 * t + y_0##. After the first bounce, I can find y by pretending the ball was thrown from the ground with velocity ##e * -v_f## with ##v_f## being the velocity of the ball when hitting the ground, but I have to reset the origin of time by subtracting the time it took until the first bounce (##t_1##) so ##y = g * (t - t_1) * (t - t_1) + (e * -v_f) * (t - t_1)##. I can repeat this for as many bounces as needed so this is easy to do in a step-by-step simulation, but I can't seem to figure out how to find a rigorous closed form from here. [/QUOTE]
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