Coefficient Of Restitution: Why Certain Objects Are More Bouncy Than Others?

Basketballs bounce a lot, but plastic balls don’t. Some objects are inherently bouncier than others. Why is that so? The answer lies in a property of the material which is known as the coefficient of restitution. In this video, we give a layman explanation of what the coefficient of restitution is, and how does it make stuff bouncy.


References

https://www.academia.edu/7888446/Measure_the_coefficient_of_restitution_for_sports_balls
https://www.asu.edu/courses/kin335/documents/Coefficient%20of%20restitution.pdf
https://www.asu.edu/courses/kin335tt/Lectures/Kinetics/Impact%20and%20Coefficients%20of%20restitution.pdf
http://www.physics.umd.edu/courses/Phys405/Hill/Fall05/Information/AJP/AJP00482.pdf