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Blast from a Basketball

Blast from a Basketball

When you drop a ball, it bounces back up, but not to its starting height. But what happens if you drop a ball on top of a ball on top of a ball? Physics Girl stacked a golf ball on top of a bouncy ball on top of a basketball. When she dropped the whole stack at once, the basketball and bouncy ball rocketed the golf ball 28 feet up into the sky. That’s more than 8 times the height the golf ball started from!

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