Timeline for How quiet can a bouncing ball be when it hits the floor?
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| Aug 5, 2019 at 20:19 | vote | accept | OMGsh | ||
| Jul 27, 2019 at 3:22 | answer | added | Georg E. | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 26, 2019 at 21:30 | history | edited | OMGsh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 26, 2019 at 17:05 | comment | added | Adrian Howard | I believe the main difference is putty would not vibrate very long after impact, while a rubber ball with compressed air inside will vibrate longer after impact. | |
| Jul 26, 2019 at 16:35 | comment | added | The Photon | Please edit your question to clarify the constraints on the problem. As currently written, "you can make an arbitrarily small ball to achieve an arbitrarily low sound energy" is a valid answer. | |
| Jul 26, 2019 at 13:29 | comment | added | OMGsh | Foam tennis balls are an excellent answer. Are they really quieter with the same boucne of tennis balls? So what's the physics behind this? What exactly happens to their kinetic energy? | |
| Jul 26, 2019 at 13:22 | comment | added | Bob D | @OMGsh In addition to balloons mentioned by S. McGrew, you have foam balls, a.k.a. "nerf" balls. | |
| Jul 26, 2019 at 13:16 | comment | added | OMGsh | Nice! but so are also very small rubber balls. I am taking about solid heavier balls that falls quickly. | |
| Jul 26, 2019 at 13:11 | comment | added | S. McGrew | Balloons are pretty quiet when they bounce, and should qualify as balls. | |
| Jul 26, 2019 at 12:57 | history | edited | OMGsh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 26, 2019 at 12:37 | history | asked | OMGsh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |