To the Moon! (Image enclosed)

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Post #97,318

by Another Scott

4/18/03 3:57:33 PM

To the Moon! (Image enclosed)

I think the rubber will eventually shatter if it hits something with high enough velocity, but I don't know if its terminal velocity in the atmosphere is high enough.

If you're tricky, you can send a Superball to the Moon (if reality follows the ideal physics)! [link|http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~kskeldon/PubSci/exhibits/D12/|Here]:

There are a number of physical concepts, such as transfer between kinetic and potential energy and momentum conservation, that can be demonstrated using bouncy rubber balls. One of the most popular is the superball bounce, where two or more superballs are dropped from a height one on top of the other. The result after the collision with the floor is quite surprising. If two balls are dropped simultaneously, one on top of the other, so that the top ball is much lighter that the bottom, then on collision with the floor the top ball will shoot up to a height much greater than the original dropping distance. This will work well when the ratio of the balls' masses is about five or more. Theoretically, if the ratio of the masses is infinite, then the lighter ball should reach exactly nine times the height of release.

[image|http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~kskeldon/PubSci/exhibits/D12/super.gif|0|Superball Bounce|383|685]

If seven balls are dropped from a height of 1km above the earth's surface, then the top ball attains a velocity greater than the escape velocity of the earth and will hit the moon!

Emphasis added.

Cheers,
Scott.

Post #97,319

4/18/03 4:17:56 PM

College trick

Take a large superball, one of the ones about three inches across. Get a new pencil, cut of the eraser just below the ferrule, and sharpen both ends. Insert one end into the superball just enough that when you hold the pencil the ball doesn't fall off. Drop this in a room with an acoustic-tile cieling.

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Such wisdom in one so young :-) - (dmarker) - April 18, 2003, 05:57:24 PM EDT

Heh. - (tseliot) - April 18, 2003, 03:34:31 PM EDT

To the Moon! (Image enclosed) - (Another Scott) - (1) - April 18, 2003, 03:57:33 PM EDT

College trick - (drewk) - April 18, 2003, 04:17:56 PM EDT

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