If I drop a bouncy ball on a tile floor, does it bounce forever?

syrilram

If I drop a bouncy ball on a tile floor, does it bounce forever?

and why not if it doesn’t?

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Wolves_of_Passion 1 #
An Unknown Location | 8 months, 2 weeks ago (0 minutes after post)

gravity

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Green Knight 1 #
An Unknown Location | 8 months, 2 weeks ago (27 minutes after post)

And conversion of energy. Energy is converted from potential energy, through kinetic and dissipated in heat, sound, elastic energy, friction etc. Also, no surface is purely frictionless or purely elastic so energy is “lost” there (converted - energy has to go somewhere in Newtonian physics).

With evey bounce, a ball will lose energy and eventually come to rest.

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james.sting 18 #
An Unknown Location | 8 months, 2 weeks ago (43 minutes after post)

everything in motion has more force than it does when its still, but once it his the ground (via gravity) it looses some traction and force, and it deteriates. thats why some things just dont go “BOOM” and fall down, it bounces to loose its force gradually and to the point were it haults. so basically, no, a ball doesnt bounce forever.

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Anonymous #
8 months, 2 weeks ago (49 minutes after post)

Dang you guys are smart.. I must have missed out on the physics class everyone took

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An Unknown Location | 8 months, 2 weeks ago (1 hour after post)

haha reading that intimidates me.
im starting physics next week :0

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