a ball is dropped onto a horizontal plane from a height h above the ground. if the co-efficient of restetution is e find the total distance traveled before the ball comes to rest?
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106when a ball falls from a height h on a surface of COR e.
The vel becomes ev where v was the velocity of striking.
So height reached = e2h
So total height will be h + 2[e2h + e4h + ... ]
use sum of infinite GP... total dist = h + 2e2h/(1-e2)
= h(1+e2)/(1-e2)
