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Why is a bowling ball hard to stop?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

It has impressive rotational kinetic energy as well as linear kinetic energy.

Example, a 7 kg diameter 0.25 metre diameter Bowling ball travelling at 10 metres / second, has a linear KE of 350 joules, and also a rotating KE

of 140 joules, both of these have to be arrested upon stopping the bowling ball.

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