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A small disc of mass 60\mathrm{g} is placed on top of a vertical spring, which can oscillate and has a spring constant k = 6\mathrm{N/m}. Initially the spring is at rest. From a distance h = 0.8\mathrm{m} above the spring we release a small elastic bouncing ball of mass 10\mathrm{g}.
The ball collides with the disc with a coefficient of restitution e = \frac{3}{4} and bounces back - up.
Find the maximum distance between the ball and the disc.
Possible extension: What about the maximum distance between the ball and the disc after the two objects have collided a second time? (Computationally heavy!)
For simplicity, you may assume that g = 10 \mathrm{m/s}^2.
A ball whooshes down a slide and hits another ball which flies off the slide horizontally as a projectile. How far does it go?