does temperature affect the bouncinessof the ball????

Question

how could you find out?

Answer 1

Yes if the ball is a rubber material. It will lose its elasticity as the temperature drops. Sort of like a garden hose is very flexible in the summer but is as stiff as a pole in the winter time!

Get the ball cold enough and it will shatter like glass! Dip it in liquid nitrogen and drop it and you'll see what I mean!

Answer 2

Heck yeah! Yes, it does "depend on the material the ball is made of" insofar as to determine how much of an effect temperature has, but I don't think there is a real material in existence that one could even theoretically make a ball out of that wouldn't be affected by temperature. Most materials (certainly anything you'll be able to get your hands on without a PhD and impressive government help) will get more rigid with dropping temperature. Get two rubber balls from a vending machine (good science says get them from the same vending machine). Put one on a sunny window sill for 4 hours and the other in the freezer. Try it out. Try it with wooden balls (craft store; probably as beads, the hole through it doesn't matter that much). Marbles. Styrofoam. Marshmallows. Try 'em out. I bet you'd conclude the marbles are unaffected (unless they pick up something sticky and gooey in the freezer). It's not that they aren't affected, they're just much less sensitive to temperature. If you had a 1500-degree windowsill, you'd see a difference. There's an ideal temperature for ideal bounciness for every material, and they get get less bouncy on either side of that maximum.

Answer 3

It depends on the materials involved as to how it will be affected, but it will be affected. An inflated ball at a colder temperature will not bounce as well due to lower pressure and greater surface contact (friction as opposed to elasticity). A rubber ball, however, might be less elastic when hotter due to the softness of the surface (yielding greater surface contact). Hope that helps.

Answer 4

yes, as the material heats up the molecules move faster and faster, similarly as the material cools down the molecules move slower and slower. So in the cold case, when the ball is bounced it doesn't have the fleibility to let it rebound as much as when it is hot.

conduct a simple experiment! put a tennis ball in the freezer for 15 minutes, then drop it from a table top and measure how hight it bounces. Then put a tennis ball in the dryer and let it go for 15 minutes (maybe put in wrapped in a towel to not hurt the dryer) and then drop it from a table top and see how high it bounces!

Answer 5

What is the ball made of?

You could research the material the ball is made of to see if it will constrict in cold weather, or expand in hot weather.

As a rule of thumb, I would say generally, yes. It may not be a noticeable change, though.

Answer 6

yes, the more heat on the air in the ball means more chemical movement and therefore more expansion within the ball, then the more stretched surface and the more pressure inside makes the ball bounce higher. unless it pops of course . . . : ) just sit one of your balls outside in the sun and (as long as it doesn't get so hot that it starts deflating because of a leak or because the rubber surface is getting gummy) compare its bounce to one in the air conditioned house. the warm one wins unless it is too warm

Answer 7

yes because pressure is affected by temperature and pressure affects the bounciness of a ball

Answer 8

i think it depends on the matierial used to make the ball. if you make a ball out of snow, and you bounce it in warm weather, it will just break up and melt. but if you are using rubber balls, then you might as well bounce it at room temperature. if it gets too cold, then it gets brittle, and will shatter if you try to bounce it.

Answer 9

depends on the material used in the making of the ball

Answer 10

sure does. The increase of temperature of water decreases the water's density causing a decrease in buoyancy of objects