This teaching module explores the time and distance of a bouncing ball and leads to a study of the geometric series.
Robert Styer is a faculty member in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and Morgan Besson is a faculty member in the Department of Physics, both at Villanova University.
This teaching module explores the time and distance of a bouncing ball and leads to a study of the geometric series.
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Published May 2007; article ID 1550. Copyright © 2007 by Robert Styer and Morgan Besson.