07-11-2010, 12:54 AM
What Science Says About The World Cup Ball (via NPR)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...=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?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...=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?