Collision between a sphere and floor is inaccurate in unity - c#

This is the setup I have. I am trying to make a game in unity which appears 2d but is actually 3d. I have a simple sphere and a floor, which is made up of cubes placed next to each other(the colliders overlap a little) with the same Y value and Z value. My 2d plane is in X-Y plane(Z being the depth).
Now in the script attached to the sphere, in the Update function, I have used rigidbody.addForce() in the +ve X axis function to move the sphere forward. I have attached rigidbody to the sphere and enabled gravity. The collider of the sphere is the default one.
Now the problem is:
When I run this scene. The sphere moves forward but at the intersection of the colliders, it jumps a bit(very less but still noticable) upward and loses its momentum. It happens at every intersection.
BUT this does NOT happen if I place the sphere on a floor made up of a SINGLE cube(a very long one).
Is this problem arising because of overlapping colliders? How do I solve this issue?
Thanks in advance

I don't think this is fixable. Unity physics is approximate, and even when physics material are set up to 1.0 bounciness, momentum doesn't stay constant — I learned it the hard way when I tried to develop a game depending on constant momentum, and had to write my own little physics simulation for that.

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