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Energy transfer in snooker/pool? Energy can't be made, but only transferred. If I hit a snooker ball with topspin, it will then transfer the kinetic energy to the target ball, but then the spin causes it to roll on again and the process can be repeated. How can you explain this in terms of energy?
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If the Earth was reduced to the size of a snooker ball, which would be smoother?
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