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A perfectly elastic ball is dropped repeatedly on a hard floor and rises back to the same height each time. Taking the downward direction as positive, its velocity-time graph is:

Options:

Answer:
B
Solution:

With downward positive the acceleration is constant, so the graph has a constant positive slope; at each elastic bounce the velocity flips from to instantly. That is a sawtooth. Option B.

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