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Title
Dancing Steel Ball
Alternative Title
Kugeltanz
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Number of Parts
63
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CC Attribution - NoDerivatives 3.0 Germany:
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IWF SignatureC 14842
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Production Year2003

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IWF Technical DataVideo-Clip ; F, 59 sec

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Abstract
A steel ball is dropped onto a heavy steel plate. It collides elastically with the plate and rises almost back to its initial height, whereupon the motion repeats itself periodically, with an amplitude determined by the initial height. The total force acting on the ball is highly nonlinear. Energy dissipation leads to a slow decrease of the mechanical energy, and thus of the amplitude, as the experiment progresses. At the same time, the frequency increases
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