Squash Ball Investigation

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Nick Graham 11WS

Squash Ball Investigation

Introduction

In this investigation I will be looking at the bounce height of a squash ball, and the factors that may change it. I will see if the bounce height is proportional to the change in the factor I choose to investigate.

Factors

There are seven factors I could investigate which are:

* Temperature of the ball (C)

* Surface the ball is bounced on (NC)

* Weight of the ball (C)

* Type of ball (NC)

* Height of drop (C)

* Force of throw (C)

* Gravity the ball is dropped in (C?)

I want to look at factors that have continuous variables, because I need more than one result to find out if the factor is proportional to the height of bounce. I have marked the above factors with either C or NC in brackets, C meaning it has continuous variables, and NC meaning it doesn't and these are then ruled out.

If I investigated the surface the ball is dropped on there would be little variance because there aren't many different surfaced to use, this is the