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Bouncing ball, an Uncommon card
The physics of a bouncing ball concerns the physical behaviour of bouncing balls, particularly its motion before, during, and after impact against the surface of another body.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 86
- Power
- 161
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 22,000
Power 161 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Bouncing ball quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Bouncing ball card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
However, the exact modelling of the ______ is complex and of interest in sports engineering.
Answer
behaviour. However, the exact modelling of the behaviour is complex and of interest in sports engineering. From the Bouncing ball article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Geophysics. Geophysics 48,000 · Canis Minor 37,000 · Bouncing ball 22,000 · Siouxsie Wiles 9,800 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Several aspects of a bouncing ball's behaviour serve as an introduction to mechanics in high school or undergraduate level physics courses.
- However, the exact modelling of the behaviour is complex and of interest in sports engineering.
- The motion of a ball is generally described by projectile motion, while its impact is usually characterized through the coefficient of restitution.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Bouncing ball article was read about 22,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 86: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Bouncing ball (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : MichaelMaggs Edit by Richard Bartz, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
