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Explain the cause of atmospheric pressure

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Atmospheric pressure is caused by the weight of the air above you. It seems silly , but you have to rememeber that the air is full of molecules of different elements ( nitrogen , oxygen , CO2 , etc ... ) and the have atomic weight.
Thats why there is less pressure on top of you when you are at greater altitudes , there is less air above you.

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where g = 9.80 m/s² is the magnitude of acceleration due to gravity.

Its height y is

y = 40 m - 1/2 g t²

The ball is dropped from a 40 m height, so that it takes

0 = 40 m - 1/2 g t²

==> t = √(80/g) s ≈ 2.86 s

for it to reach the ground, after which time it attains a velocity of

v = -g (√(80/g) s)

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(ii) The ball will technically keep bouncing forever, since the speed of the ball is only getting halved each time it bounces. But y will converge to 0 as t gets arbitrarily larger. We can't realistically answer this question without being given some threshold for deciding when the ball is perfectly still.

During the first bounce, the ball starts with velocity 14 m/s, so the second bounce begins with 7 m/s, and the third with 3.5 m/s. The ball's height during this bounce is

y = (3.5 m/s) t - 1/2 g t²

Solve y = 0 for t :

0 = (3.5 m/s) t - 1/2 g t²

0 = t (3.5 m/s - 1/2 g t)

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v = 7 m/s - g t

At 6 s, the ball has velocity

(iv) v = 7 m/s - g (6 s - 5.72 s) ≈ 4.26 m/s

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