Stacked Ball Drop
Version 1.0.2 (452 KB) by
Duncan Carlsmith
Velocity amplification in dropping a stack of balls is analyzed.
Dropping a golf ball atop a basketball leads to the golf ball launching higher than its drop height. This remarkable velocity amplication is studied as a exercise in kinematics for physics students.
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Duncan Carlsmith (2024). Stacked Ball Drop (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/100983-stacked-ball-drop), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
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