1. a student drops a basket ball into a pool from a height of 5 meters while a friend records the approximate splash height. they want to make a bigger splash in their next trial. how can they achieve this?

A. They can use a ball with the same but less mass
B. they can drop the ball from a lower height.
C. they can use a ball with the same diameter but more mass.
D. they can drop the same ball with less speed.

3 answers

C. They can use a ball with the same diameter but more mass.
which characteristic will be affected by increasing the speed of an object from 30 meters per second (m/8) to 40 meters a second (m/8)?
weight
mass
gravitational attraction
kinetic energy
The characteristic that will be affected by increasing the speed of an object from 30 m/s to 40 m/s is kinetic energy.