Question

A ball is dropped from a height of 1 metre. If it reaches 0.7 times the height of the height of the previous bounce at each bounce, work out how many times the ball bounces until the height is less than 1 centimetre

Answer 1

Hello,
Let's  n the number of the bounce

$u_{0} =100\\ u_{1} =0.7*100\\ u_{2} =0.7^{2}*100\\ u_{3} =0.7^{3}*100\\ ... u_{n} =0.7^{n} *100\\ u_{n} =0.7^{n}*100 \leq \ 1$

ln(0.7^n)+ln(100) <=ln(1)
==>n*ln(0.7) <=-ln(100)
==>n >=-ln(100)/ln(0.7)
==> n>=12,911392471625765979506986280561

The ball bounces 12 times until the height is less than 1 centimetre .

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