Re: God damnit Bambu... You too Bob!

On Jan 30, 5:25 am, "Michael Richardson" wrote:

It almost impies that you have gyroscopic effects at work when describing
the ball behavior in the light of your statements. I don't doubt that this
may have relevance given the input inertia not being perfectly directed thru
the center of mass of the ball itself and the resistance of the cloth acting
on an output other than the spin axis itself thus causing some deviation
from a perfect shotline but not enough to really be relevant or predictable
to incorporate this into a play strategy. Just my opinion!
Mike R.

I don't know about any gyroscopic effects, but I agree that whatever
any of these effects are, you don't have to worry about them at the
table - they're very, very small. Let me respond to Ron's post in a
little more detail as to what I meant. It's already complicated enough
without trying to take into account any deviation of the ball's
angular momentum from the direction of its spin axis!

Jim
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