...Periodic Motion

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If you drop a basketball it will bounce up and down. Can this motion be called an oscillation? Is it simple harmonic? Why/why not?

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Estimate the period (neglecting air resistance) of basketball bounces if you drop the ball from chest high?

3.

Oscillations are called simple harmonic if
the restoring force is independent of the amplitude
the acceleration is uniform
the period is independent of amplitude
all the above are correct

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