A rubber ball bounces on the ground as shown. After each bounce, the ball reaches one-half the highest of the bounce before it. If the time the ball was in the air between the first and second bounce was 1 second, what would be the time between the second and third bounce?

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The time in air for each bounce is proportional to the square root of the maximum height, as derived from the equation for time of flight: . Since the height halves after each bounce, the time for the next bounce is of the previous time.
Given the time between the first and second bounce is 1 second, the time between the second and third bounce is .
Final Answer: 0.71 Sec