Collision Review

Multiple Choice

To play croquet, you hit a ball through metal hoops with a wooden mallet. If your ball touches another player’s, you can “send” the other player’s ball off course. What will happen when the player strikes the ball with the mallet?

• Sound energy will travel through the ball that is hit with the mallet, but neither ball will move

• Kinetic energy will travel through the ball that is hit with the mallet, and the other ball will move.

• Kinetic energy is transformed into sound energy, but the balls will not move.

• The ball that is hit with the mallet will compress and then stretch back to move the other ball.

Multiple Choice

Cole performed an investigation. He made this table of his data. What question was Cole most likely investigating?

• Which ball needs the most energy to collide?

• Which ball can be thrown farthest?

• Which ball compresses and stretches back more?

• Why do some balls bounce more than others?

Multiple Choice

Which conclusion is best supported by the evidence in the table?

• The basketball takes longer to bounce than the other balls.

• The golf ball has the greatest mass.

• The table tennis ball compressed and stretched the least.

• The baseball compressed and stretched the most.

Multiple Select

What three things take place when the bat makes contact with the ball?

• Some of the ball's kinetic energy is transformed into thermal energy.

• Chemical energy is transformed into kinetic energy and heat.

• Sound energy is transferred to the surroundings.

• Energy transfer causes a change in motion.

Multiple Select

Which two statements describe the energy involved when the snowball and wall collide?

• There is no energy transfer because the snowball falls apart.

• The kinetic energy of the snowball does not transfer to the wall.

• The change in the snowball's speed is evidence for a change in energy.

• The kinetic energy of the snowball is transferred to the surroundings and to the chunks of snow that spread out.

Multiple Choice

As the two objects collide, the _______is evidence of a change in energy?

• nail

• motion of the hammer

• hammer

• sound