If I dropped a rubber ball on the moon would it bounce more times before resting than if dropped on earth...?

...due to the lack of air resistance? Or would the moon's weaker gravity mean its dropped ball started with less potential energy and would come to rest sooner? Let's assume the same ball was dropped at the same height above each equally flat surface.





Would anything other than friction from the surface slow the moon ball?If I dropped a rubber ball on the moon would it bounce more times before resting than if dropped on earth...?
Sunside - the rubber would melt.


Darkside - the rubber would smash





Other than that the ball would bounce more often and the time between each bounce would be greater. This assumes the coefficient of restitution between the ball and the surface is the same.If I dropped a rubber ball on the moon would it bounce more times before resting than if dropped on earth...?
it would probably bounce the same number of times as it would on Earth because the only thing that really changes is the gravity and air resistance. There is hardly any noticeable air resistance to a small rubber ball on Earth if say it were dropped about waist height because it is still accelerating toward Earth at 9.8m/s and if it only takes 1 second to get to the ground it cant be slowed by air that much. Now if it was on the moon then you just cancel out the air resistance factor because there is no air on the moon but the ball would still bounce the same number of times as on Earth just only slower. Its just like astronauts here and the astronauts that went to the moon. If they jumped here on Earth they would quickly come back down because of Earths gravity but on the moon given the same amount of force, you would go higher and it would take longer to touch back down.
Less if it bounces at all.
I should think the gravity wouldn't have a great deal of an effect - the number of times it bounces will be a function of the conservation of energy in the bounce itself, which will be dependent upon the surface it bounces on.





If it bounces in the dust that seems to cover most of what we've seen of the surface then I should think it wouldn't bounce much... but then it wouldn't on Earth, either.





If there were a relatively restitutive surface, such as concrete, then it should continue bouncing for a reasonable amount of time. There will be some increased losses on Earth due to the higher impact speeds, but overall I don't think the differences would be that significant.
i think you would struggle to bounce a bouncy ball on the moon because of the low gravity
What about the Moon's gravitational pull on the ball?


Friction is just one force. Depending on whether the gravitational force is greater than or less than the frictional force, it would come to rest after a certain no. of bounces.


Assuming the gravitational pull is greater than frictional force,


I think it would rest sooner, with less no. of bounces.
Air friction would very marginally slow the ball on earth, perhaps giving you very slightly fewer bounces, depending on the height. The lower the starting height, the smaller the effect of air resistance. But you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference by counting, because it's that last, itty-bitty bounce that you'd be missing.





The real difference would be the time. Because of the moon's lower gravity, each bounce would take 6 times longer than the bounce on earth, and it would take 6 times longer for the ball to come to rest. But the *number* of bounces would be nearly the same.
No it will not bounce more times but less times . because the bouncing is a reaction the ball does after it hits the ground and the power of this reaction equals the power (energy) of the action . And the action here is the weight of the ball and as long as the gravity of the moon is 1\6 of the gravity on earth then the action will be 1\6 of the action on earth and also the reaction (this is in general but there are other things that effect like the place you are doing the experience is it flat or not so the lost power will be less )
The last part of the question was: ';Would anything other than friction from the surface slow the moon ball?'; and as been mentioned before, there is no air so there would be no othr losses.


Bur one thing that has not been mentioned is that the elasticity of rubber is non-linear, and since the ball will be moving slower on the moon, the deflection will be less and the losses while bouncing may well be less. So in effect, even thought ';friction'; might not be exactly the right word, the ';friction from the surface'; could be less resulting in more bounces
It will bounce more in height.


The settling does not depend on the gravity, it depends on loss in energy per bounce. (elastic collision or inelastic collision). If the collision is perfectly elastic, then there will not be any loss and the ball will bounce for infinite time, even on the earth.





However, on moon there is no air and hence the frictional loss in air will not be there on moon. Hence the ball will bounce for more time on moon. - Due to lack of air, not because of gravitational change.
i don't think it would bounce as much on the moon.
y dont u go to the moon %26amp; try out??!!
It would not bounce at all. It would just float away due to lack of gravity. If you ever get the chance to find out for yourself then please show us the pics!
No. it floats.
It wouldn't bounce at all, since there is no gravity to pull it towards the ground. It will just float.