Is a cotton ball considered a solid?
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It is a solid. It DOES float. You can eat it though it will taste bad. A cotton ball is a solid just because it has a unified molecular structure that holds everything so close together. If they were many times looser, cotton woud break into its original components (Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, etc) and become gaseous.
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depends which ball needs scratching
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Sure.  Anything shaped like a sphere or ball is an orb.
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What we think of as solid matter really is not solid.\nEverything only APPREARS to us to be solid.\nIf we could see it as it really is, we would see what looks like soft blurry clouds with fuzzy outlines that are semi-transparant.\nIt is a function of our brains, and those of all animals brains, to "compose" these fuzzy clouds into shapes that appear to be solid.\nBecause the "strings" that make up each object are vibrating at slightly different rates from those that surround them, they repel each other.\nSo the answer is no, solid matter cannot pass through solid matter.
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Previous answerer had it correct.  Falling-ball viscometers are based on Stokes' Law.  See sources below for a complete description.
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Rubber, like many other materials has a property called ELASTICITY, that is the ability of an object to recover its shape after a deformation.\n\nSo, when the ball bounces, the force of the hit deforms the ball, and it recovers its shape because of elasticity, "pushing" ground in the opposite way, as Newton´s Second Law states.
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163 lb (solid) but only 87 lb if pulverized
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They had that on an episode of Mythbusters.  The ball travelled less further because of the decrease in mass and no change in volume.  It was more susceptible to air resistance.
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they are little (or big) balls made from styrofoam.  it is a synthetic material, very lightweight and floats.
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density has an equation density=mass/volume\nClay in a ball has the same mass and volume as rolled into a ball (considering of course no clay comes off on the table). So the density would be calculated the same,no matter the shape.
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Was the cotton ball that you think was wrong bloody?? Was there any blood on it at all?? If not the answer is NO. Relax and take a deep breath!!
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Yes! There is centripetal acceleration on the ball.  It is actually accelerating in towards the center, but other forces keep it on the edge.
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I think you are thinking about a mush ball! I have played "soft"ball for 26 years, and have broken many fingers and many bruises from being hit, I am a catcher. I can guarantee you it is hard and hurts when we get hit. I do not know why they are bigger, I guess if they were the same size we would be playing baseball.
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My magic 8 ball says no. \n\nSo does my physics professor.
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Well, theres not enough information here. \nYou have to take into consideration, the angle of the ramp, the weight of the ball, whether the ball is pushed or released, the material which the ramp and ball is made of (their frictional properties)
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solid:  poo\nliquid:  diarrhea\ngas:  fart
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Well if the ball is hollow then it will float. If the weight of the water displaced is greater than the weight of the object then it will float because the object is lighter then the area of water it is taking up.