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What Physics Says About Smooth Balls - miK. - 07-11-2010
What Science Says About The World Cup Ball (via NPR)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128411155&sc=fb&cc=fp
“You might think if you make a ball very, very smooth, it will fly through the air better than a ball that is
rough,” says John Eric Goff, chair of the physics department at Lynchburg College and author of Gold
Medal Physics: The Science of Sports. You might think that, but you’d be wrong.
Now... what did you think this thread was about?
Re: What Physics Says About Smooth Balls - Grateful11 - 07-11-2010
I thought that had been proven long ago with golf balls.
Re: What Physics Says About Smooth Balls - rgG - 07-11-2010
I read psychics instead of physics, so I was really confused.
Re: What Physics Says About Smooth Balls - M>B> - 07-11-2010
Wiki has a good esplanation...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_balls#Aerodynamics
Re: What Physics Says About Smooth Balls - haikuman - 07-11-2010
I thought you meant
Physic
n.
A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic.
Archaic. The art or profession of medicine.
tr.v., -icked, -ick·ing, -ics.
To act on as a cathartic.
To cure or heal.
To treat with or as if with medicine.
smooooth balls evacuate cleaner and never chaff *(:>*
Re: What Physics Says About Smooth Balls - N-OS X-tasy! - 07-11-2010
Grateful11 wrote:
I thought that had been proven long ago with golf balls.
And, to a lesser degree, baseballs.
Re: What Physics Says About Smooth Balls - Speedy - 07-11-2010
I'm not going to touch this one with a 9" pole.
Re: What Physics Says About Smooth Balls - Don Kiyoti - 07-11-2010
What about chocolate salty balls?
Re: What Physics Says About Smooth Balls - bazookaman - 07-11-2010
Re: What Physics Says About Smooth Balls - RAMd®d - 07-11-2010
“You might think if you make a ball very, very smooth, it will fly through the air better than a ball that is
rough,” says John Eric Goff, chair of the physics department at Lynchburg College and author of Gold
Medal Physics: The Science of Sports. You might think that, but you’d be wrong.
That's the third interesting thing related to soccer that I've read.
These are the first two:
Not all smooth round objects need fly through the air