Pass, dribble and shoot! That's how basketball works.

But how about the physics of

dribbling of it. I bet you didn’t know there was science involved in the sport of
basketball!

Today I will explain how the basketball bounces or why do they bounce?

Basketballs bounce because of the pressurized air inside of them, gravity and
Newton’s Laws of Motion.

When you dribble a basketball, your hand and gravity both push the ball towards the
ground, which applied the first law of motion the law of inertia.
Newton's first law states that every object will remain at rest or in uniform
motion in a straight line unless compelled to change its state by the action of an
external force. It means there is no net force acting on an object.

As it drops, the ball accelerates and speeds up the second law of motion which
applied the second law of motion.
The second law explains how the velocity of an object changes when it is subjected
to an external force. The law defines a force to be equal to change in momentum per
change in time.
It wants to stay in motion so the ball pushes into the ground when it hits,
compressing the air inside. The ground pushes up with an equal, but opposite
amount of force resulting in the ball bouncing back up in to your hand which. The
energy in the compressed air is transferred back to the ball pushing it back into
motion. If you were to take your hand away and stop dribbling, the ball would
continue to bounce due to Newton’s first law, but would slow down and eventually
stop due to friction.

The more air pressure inside, the harder it will push on the sides of the ball and
the more bounce you’ll get. This is why an under inflated ball won’t bounce very
well because there is not enough air pressure inside to maintain the forces
necessary for bounce.