Question

3. A ball is dropped initially from a height of 1.2 m. The rebound from the floor is 3/5 of the previous height.

(a) Find the height to which the ball rises at the 2nd bounce.
(b) Find the total distance that the ball has travelled when it hits the floor for the tenth time.
(c) Assuming that the ball continues to bounce in the same way indefinitely, find the total distance that the ball travels.​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Let the height above which the ball is released be H

This problem can be tackled using geometric progression.

The nth term of a Geometric progression is given by the above, where n is the term index, a is the first term and the sum for such a progression up to the Nth term is