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L.H., nice article. Is sometimes hard to to get
scholarly about golf.
Dr. CMR
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Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 10:44
AM
Subject: ShopTalk: Article on the physics
of golf
Hi all,
The British Institute of Physics (IOP) is
making available a nice literature review dealing with the physics of golf.
Normally this article would set you back a fair piece of change, but IOP is a
very progressive publisher. This URL will take you there:
http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0034-4885/66/2/202/
The
author is A. Raymond Penner, who has published research on the question of the
optimum launch angle for drives. He reviews literature in three major
areas:
o the golf swing
o the golf
ball
o the golf club
The article covers 41 pages and
cites a large number of references. My personal favorite piece of research is
Nishizawa, who "examined the effect of adding water to the inside of the
shaft. ...the angular momentum of the club was 44% greater at impact than for
a conventional club." Clearly the answer to our dreams - but wouldn't heavy
water add even more explosiveness to our drives?
Hunter
L.
H. Kevil
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