system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
How would a springboard work on Moon?

I've been wondering about this for quite a long time. None of my physics teachers could tell me how would be the effect.

The gravity on the Moon lets us to bounce 6 times higher, but reduced falling speed would reduce the pressure put on the trampoline surface by our body. So, how would it be?
gpt
First: ignore the fact that it's notoriously difficult to do acrobatics on the moon. And friction.

To figure this out, we need to look at energy. When you jump, you add kinetic energy to yourself. This is converted into gravitational energy when you move up, slowing you down. As you fall back, the reverse happens and you speed up again, ending with you falling down with the same energy and speed as you began. Note that the strength of gravity doesn't change your final energy/speed: lower gravity just takes a bit longer to get you back.

The trampoline does something like gravity: it converts kinetic into elastic energy and back again. Gravity plays no role in this. Without friction you'd bounce forever. If you jump, you add some more energy to the mix. The first jump about doubles it, the second triples etc.

So the trampoline would work perfectly fine on the moon, and you'd jump and bounce at least six times as high as you would on earth. As there's no air friction on the moon, it might even be higher.