Physics, asked by rahu05, 1 year ago

suppose there are two balls one of rubber and the other metallic there are of the same mass and are thrown on a wall with the same velocity why does a rubber ball bounce back while a metallic ball simply falls down after striking with the wall ​

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Answered by priyanshu9967
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It's a basic principle in physics that energy cannot be lost. The rubber ball starts off with kinetic energy, hits the wall, and rebounds moving with about the same kinetic energy. So no energy is lost. If the iron ball doesn't bounce it must mean that the energy it originally had has been transferred to the wall.

Rubber balls are soft, so they decelerate relatively slowly and they deform and spread out as they hit the wall. This means that the pressure they exert on the wall while they are bouncing is relatively low. By contrast an iron ball is very hard so it stops very suddenly and all the force it exerts on the wall is concentrated on a small area. That means the pressure is high enough to damage the wall.

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