Coursework Ideas: Physics Ball Bouncing Experiment

[Michaelcarson11]

Coursework ideas??

Hi everyone,

For my AS physics coursework we have been given some data for a vertically bouncing ball (i.e. distance and time) and I was wondering if anyone could think of anything remotely interesting to do with it??

Thanks in advance

 

[fasterthanjoao]

Ideas for calculations to perform on the data you have? or ideas for an experiment involving a vertically bouncing ball?

Seems pretty limited to me, is this an individual project or group work? there's a few things you could calculate with the data, however it does depend on how precise/accurate the data given is.

 

[Michaelcarson11]

ive got to perform some calculations on data we've been given about a bouncing ball. the problem is i can't think of anything interesting to try and calculate (acceleration due to gravity and loss of energy on each bounce being about all i can think of).

 

[cristo]

What sort of data is it? Are there lots of different experiments with the ball dropped from different heights. If so, what else is measured?-- Time to stop bouncing perhaps.

You'll have to give more information for someone to be able to think of something!

 

[Michaelcarson11]

It really is just one set of data from one experiment showing the height of the ball at various times (just over 5 seconds which relates to about 8 bounces of the ball).