We've seen that stout tendons in the legs of hopping kangaroos store energy. When a kangaroo lands, much of the kinetic energy of motion is converted to elastic energy as the tendons stretch, returning to kinetic energy when the kangaroo again leaves the ground. If a hopping kangaroo increases its speed, it spends more time in the air with each bounce, but the contact time with the ground stays approximately the same. Explain why you would expect this to be the case

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13 January, 07:35

We've seen that stout tendons in the legs of hopping kangaroos store energy. When a kangaroo lands, much of the kinetic energy of motion is converted to elastic energy as the tendons stretch, returning to kinetic energy when the kangaroo again leaves the ground. If a hopping kangaroo increases its speed, it spends more time in the air with each bounce, but the contact time with the ground stays approximately the same. Explain why you would expect this to be the case

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So far there's an increases in the speed of the kangaroo, then the tendons will stretch more thereby enabling them to store more energy. For this reason, they will have a additional time in the air propelled by greater spring energy. In contact with the ground, it will turn out to be like a spring in simple harmonic motion. There will be increases in their agility rate in hopping the amplitude of the oscillation, but that does not in any way affect the time, or period in contact with the ground.