Question

RRJha,

I am working on another classic experiment for a physics project:

"Procedure: Take a basketball (any big ball) and a golf ball (any small ball). Hold the small ball over the big ball and in contact with it. Now drop the balls together from chest height so that the small ball rides the big ball during the fall. Observe what happens to the balls after the collision.

Results and conclusions: Answer the following questions based on the observations made during the experiment.

* How does the big ball move after the collision? Is it different from its motion if it is dropped from the same height alone?

* How does the small ball move after the collision? Is it different from its motion if it is dropped from the same height alone?

Use sketches to explain the results of the experiment."

I will perform the experiment itself soon and will post everything to you for your review. Do you have any helpful insight as I conduct this? How would you visually explain this? Would this be credible help: http://www.exo.net/~pauld/activities/physics/bouncingballs.html