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How far does the golf ball travel before coming to rest?
Question: How far does the golf ball travel before coming to rest?
A golf ball is dropped from a height of 81 inches. It rebounds to 2/3 of its original height and continues rebounding in this manner. How far does it travel before coming to rest?
(golf travel)
Best answer:
Answer by shinigami
thoereticaly speaking it never come to a rest (assuming it bounces exatly 2/3 its last bounce every time, scince you can divide any number (no matter how small).)
sv ,
EDIT: (and Rocky, too)…
have given you a wonderful solution to your geometric series question. The other answers are so much “hand waving” junk. Those folks have no idea what is going on in the problem…forget their prattle!!
There are many examples of infinite processes that have finite results. This is one example.
The old joke: A man closes the distance between himself and his beautiful wife by 1/2 each time he moves. The ignorant say “He never reaches her.” He answers “I get close enough.”
-Fred