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This tag is for questions relating to collision which is the interaction between two or more bodies that results in physical contact and an exchange of momentum between the bodies involved. When it happens, kinetic energy is often exchanged between the molecules’ translational motion and their internal degrees of freedom.
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What is the function of the top point of a bouncing ball?
The key parameter here seems to be how are distributed the losses at each bounce (from what you said, there is no air friction here): how much translational and vertical speed are lost in the transiti …