A tennis ball is held above and in contact with a basketball, and then both are simultaneously dropped. The tennis ball bounces off the basketball at a fairly high speed. This is because:

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the basketball falls farther than the tennis ball.

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the tennis ball has a smaller radius.

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the massive basketball transfers momentum to the lighter tennis ball.

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the tennis ball is slightly shielded from the Earth's gravitational pull.

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