Disk tendencies

[Spirator]

Originally Posted by Tom Line

The frisbees are, in essences, a gyroscope. Their spin resists flipping. You can test this by bouncing them off the wall. Most will land upright. However, I would always design for the worst case.

Thrown like a coin, they should tend to land upside down - the solid top and open bottom moves the center of gravity to the top of the frisbee, and without the spin they have nothing to counter balance it.

However, I expect with the coriolis effect of the earth, teams in Australia may find this is all backwards from what they expect. That will make it a very difficult challenge for them.......

We hadn't considered the impact of the Coriolis effect on our shooting. How much of an impact would this have? We're going to Honolulu to compete later this year.