A rubber ball is dropped from the top of a ladder. It bounces on the same spot on the ground several times, each time to a lesser height than the previous bounce, before coming to rest in place.
In one or two sentences, explain how the experiment shows the direction that gravity pulls an object, specifically showing that it does not pull an object parallel to the ground.

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The size of the gravitational force is proportional to the masses of the objects and weakens as the distance between them increases. Both objects exert an equal attractive force on each other: a falling object is attracting the Earth with the same size force as the Earth is attracting it.

Now you need to know why a rubber bounce?

When a rubber ball hits something, it absorbs energy and releases energy really fast, Zheng said. ... When it hits something, it stops, and the kinetic energy is stored inside the ball as internal energy. Then it can quickly convert the internal energy back into kinetic energy which allows the ball to bounce back

Now you want to know why does a rubber bounce lower each time?

The rubber slows down, deforms temporarily and shoots back up. The air in the ball acts like a spring—it gets compressed and expands again. During the collision, some of the rubber's's energy is converted into heat. As a consequence, the ball shoots up with less energy than it had when it reached Earth.

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annyksl annyksl · Answer 2 · 2021-11-16T18:42:28+01:00

Gravity does not pull the object to the ground, but pulls it towards the object with the greatest mass.

We can arrive at this answer because:

Gravity is a force that is related to mass and distance between objects.

In that case, the more mass an object has, the more will be the "power" of gravity over it.

The object with more mass, then, can attract the object with less mass towards it, due to gravity.
In this case, a rubber ball has less mass than planet Earth. For this reason, we can say that the planet Earth, through gravity, can attract the rubber ball with great intensity.

Therefore, the rubber ball is not being pulled towards the ground, but rather towards the planet Earth.

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