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Unread 14-01-2006, 10:44
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Re: Best Way to Shoot the Balls??

I agree with Eria, because when you think of spin on something like a football, that helps to prevent different faces from being on the front, and thus pose different amounts of drag, causing the ball to tumble even worse. In the case of one of these balls, it is unclear if it will act like a baseball, because these have far less mass per unit of volume, and thus when accelerated have less momentum keeping them going forward. As the physics aren't totally clear, I asked my physics teacher about it, and he said to stay away from spin on this kind of ball. He didn't see the exact ball though, and I think the most definitive way to know how the ball will react to spin is to mock up a shooter and try it, which is what my team hopes to accomplish this weekend, among a million other things.