Dan didn't give a link for the new ball (or it didn't show up for me), b ut my wife sent this one: http://nyti.ms/Uz077y <http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=InCMR7g4BCIUPVhKEeaZKesjGnkewooQ&user_id=440a59b5da415034701d13048362148f&email_type=eta&task_id=1402672110292443®i_id=0> which is probably the same. So the new ball is apparently chiral. Do they manufacture both a left and right handed form? Is there any noticeable difference in flight? On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
This non-article in the NY Times gives a nice exploded view of the three large balls depicted, at least if you click on them.
Warning: This does not work on my iMac with Mavericks when I use Firefox, butg works with Safari.
--Dan
On Jun 13, 2014, at 10:51 AM, Dave Dyer <ddyer@real-me.net> wrote:
New scientist has had several articles on this, both current and back when the old ball was introduced. The gist I got was that the seam pattern influences the point at which the ball becomes unstable as it loses velocity and spin.
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