Why is percentage rebound of a ball less when dropped from higher height?

Subject: Why is percentage rebound of a ball less when dropped from higher height?

Date: Thu Feb 25 17:03:17 1999
Posted by Tess Carden
Grade level: 7-9 School: St. Peter Marian
City: Worcester State/Province: MA Country: USA
Area of science: Physics
ID: 919983797.Ph

Message:


I dropped a basketball from different heights, from .5 M to 2.5M 
and the percentage of the rebound decreased with the increase in 
drop distance.  I hypothesized that the opposite would be true. 
Does more of the kinetic energy get transferred to thermal energy 
when the ball falls from a greater height?

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