Ball Flight Model

[Mike Schreiber]

I've attached a simple to use iterative model that can be edited including comments on how everything is calculated and a FBD. I'm confident the no drag calculation is right because it is simple kinematics, I could use a reality check on the drag included portion because it seemed a little drastic to me, but I checked all my calculations.

I assumed the drag coefficient to be constant, I calculate the Reynolds number but I could not find a look up table online for Re versus Cd of a sphere, if someone knows of one I can easily add it in to recalculate and interpolate to this table on each iteration (probably won't make a significant difference).

I did not include spin because I don't believe many teams will intentionally put spin on the ball (I could be wrong).

Hopefully this can be helpful to someone.