A basketball rolls across a classroom floor without

Chapter 10, Problem 9

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A basketball rolls across a classroom floor without slipping, with its center of mass moving at a certain speed. A block of ice of the same mass is set sliding across the floor with the same speed along a parallel line. Which object has more (i) kinetic energy and (ii) momentum? (a) The basketball does. (b) The ice does. (c) The two quantities are equal. (iii) The two objects encounter a ramp sloping upward. Which object will travel farther up the ramp? (a) The basketball will. (b) The ice will. (c) They will travel equally far up the ramp.

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