How Much Is The Air Pressure In A Soccer Ball

This literature review for Chemistry is to help answer the question how does the amount of air pressure in a soccer ball affect how high it bounces when dropped. I think the ball will bounce higher when it has greater air pressure. We will explore atmospheric pressure, “which is the pressure exerted by the weight of the atmosphere”. www.kids.earth.nasa.gov And air pressure, “which is the force exerted on you by the weight of air molecules”. Other items in play will be gravitational force and Newton's law; “this is the force of attraction between all masses in the universe”. Physics, “the branch of science concerned with the nature and properties of matter and energy”, will also be examined on how it interacts with soccer ball performance. www.google.com On the site www.soccerballworld.com engineer and soccer enthusiast Bruce Rigsby says, “The higher the air pressure inside the soccer ball the farther it will go when it is kicked.” He specifically tries to answer the question: How does the amount of air in a soccer ball affect how far it travels when struck by the same force? He concludes that the more inflated the ball is the further it will
At higher altitudes the air pressure is lower which in turn causes the ball to travel faster and straighter than they would at lower altitudes. Johannesburg is 5,500 feet above sea level, even higher than Denver. "When they play there, the ball will behave differently because of the air density compared to other stadiums," said Rabi Mehta, an aerospace engineer at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. "When watching the games recently, you often see long passes that overshoot, and I think that's because of this effect." www.livescience.com The conclusion from this research is that I will need to take altitude into consideration for accurate