Curated OER
Bouncing Balls
Students explore the concept of gravity. In this gravity instructional activity, students drop super balls from varying heights. Students record the height of the super ball on bounce zero and bounce one.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Under Pressure: Ball Bouncing Dynamics
Many sports use a ball in some way or another. We throw them, dribble them, hit them, kick them, and they always bounce back. What makes a ball so bouncy? In this experiment you can investigate the effect of air pressure on ball bouncing.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Bouncing Ball
In this experiment, students collect the height versus time data of a bouncing ball using the CBR 2. This activity investigates the values of height, time, and the coefficient A in the quadratic equation, which describes the behavior of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Straight Ahead Animation (Practice)
Try to make an animation of a bouncing ball by positioning the ball in each frame.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Linear Interpolation
In this 7-problem quiz/practice, calculate the position of a point using linear interpolation.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Squash and Stretch Animation With Bezier Curves
In this practice exercise students use the program below to create an animation of a bouncing ball. See if you can get the ball to squash as it hits the ground and stretch as it bounces back.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Save Your Animation
Make and save your own animation! Use the program below to build your animation. Now you can move the ball anywhere as well as rotate it. Use the x and y avars to position the ball. Use the s avar to control the stretch and squash, and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Hands on Activity: Animating Luxo Jr.
Begin your career as an animator now! This instructional activity is a series of hand-drawn challenges which will introduce some basic animation principles and get you thinking about the physics of motion.