13 Jun
2014
13 Jun
'14
12:32 p.m.
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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