What Form or Forms of Energy Does a Falling Elastic

question 31

Multiple Choice

What form or forms of energy does a falling elastic ball have just before it is dropped from some height above the floor [see figure above]?

• A) Kinetic and gravitational
• B) Kinetic and gravitational and elastic
• C) Elastic only
• D) Gravitational only
• E) Kinetic only

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