5. Conclusions
5.1 Practical Applications
This experiment can be used in the future to help tennis players change their playstyle depending on what court they are playing on or even create tennis courts for tennis players that can make the ball bounce faster or bounce slower. This experiment can also allow us to create unique tiles for labs to ensure that anything that drops on it will not break. Expensive lab equipment will not have to be replaced as often, and injuries from sharp broken glass will be reduced, making the dangerous lab a safer place for scientists and students.
5.2 Areas for further study
We could expand on this experiment and determine if a vacuum will affect the ball's energy loss. This will allow us to know more about the loss of energy in space, even without experimenting with it in space. We can drop the ball from 50cm onto a tile and a wooden plank three times each in a large vacuum chamber like the Space Power Facility at NASA Glenn Research Center's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio. We then will repeat the experiment outside the vacuum chamber. We will compare the results, and we can find out the difference between no vacuum and vacuum when dropping the ball.
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