When the ball is lifted and ready to drop it possesses energy what are the factors that influence the amount of this energy that the ball has?

Gravitational Potential Energy is determined by three factors: mass, gravity, and height. All three factors are directly proportional to energy.

What energy transformations occur when a ball is dropped?

As the ball falls towards the ground, its potential energy is transformed into kinetic energy, which will continue increasing as it gains momentum, until it finally collides with a surface.

When a ball is lifted to a height from the ground it will possess energy?

gravitational potential energy
2000 J of work would have to be done to bring it back to the ground. If an object, such as a ball is lifted above the ground it has gravitational potential energy. If the ball is then dropped from rest it will fall back to the ground. The gravitational potential energy is converted to kinetic energy .

What is the energy of an object that has been lifted?

Gravitational potential energy is the energy an object has by virtue of its position above the surface of the Earth. When an object is lifted, work is done.

What is a ball’s potential energy?

Lifting a ball into the air before dropping it gives it a type of energy called ‘potential energy’ – which means the ball has the potential to do some work. When you drop the ball, it gains ‘kinetic’ energy (the energy of motion) and loses its potential energy.

What is potential and kinetic energy?

Potential energy is the stored energy in any object or system by virtue of its position or arrangement of parts. On the other hand, kinetic energy is the energy of an object or a system’s particles in motion.

What happens when a ball drops?

When you drop the ball, it gains ‘kinetic’ energy (the energy of motion) and loses its potential energy. When the two balls are dropped at the same time, they hit each other (collide) just after they hit the ground, and a lot of the kinetic energy in the larger ball is transferred to the smaller ball.

Why does the height reached by a bouncing ball decrease with each bounce?

During a collision, some of the ball’s energy is converted into heat. As no energy is added to the ball, the ball bounces back with less kinetic energy and cannot reach quite the same height. A well-inflated ball bounces better because it has more air inside.

Why doesn’t the ball bounce back to the height from which it was dropped?

When you drop the ball, gravity pulls it down and it picks up speed. It hits the ground and squashes at the moment of impact. The reason it doesn’t bounce higher than where it started is simple: some of the ball’s energy is lost as heat when it bounces, so it doesn’t have as much going up as it did coming down.

What is the stored in an object that is lifted above the ground?

Gravitational potential energy
Potential energy is energy that is stored in a person or object. Gravitational potential energy is due to the position of an object above Earth’s surface. The object has the potential to fall due to gravity.