Momentum, Impulse, and the Bouncing ball

Suppose you drop a 200 g rubber ball on the floor from a height of 2.00 m and it rebounds to a height of 1.50 m. If the force that the floor exerts on the ball has the shape and duration as shown below, find the maximum value and average value of ?

3 steps:

  1. Find the velocity of the ball immediately before and after contact with the floor.
  2. Use these velocity values to find the momentum of the ball immediately before and after contact with the floor.
  3. Calculate the change in momentum and set that equal to the impulse. Solve for the maximum value of
.