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Basketball impulse investigation

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Demand
discriminating
Marks
8
Topics
2
Answer
Complete
Question8 marks

Design a video investigation into how drop height affects the impulse delivered to a basketball by the floor.

Task interpretation

What a complete response should do

Define what changes and what is measured, then give a reproducible method and a way to judge the evidence.

Make assumptions explicit, connect several ideas, and test whether the final result is physically reasonable.

Response type
investigation
Allocation
8 marks
Demand
discriminating
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