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Should we all be more like Bubba? By: Christopher Conklin

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Should we all be more like Bubba? By: Christopher Conklin

When Alan Sheppard hit a one-handed 6 iron on the moon, we can be certain it went perfectly straight because the moon has no atmosphere. On earth, the interaction between the ball and the air is responsible for both lift and curve, due to something called the Magnus Force. When a golf ball (or tennis ball, or baseball) spins as it flies, the spinning ball deflects air more in one direction than the others. This deflected air in turn pushes the ball in the opposite direction (Newton's third law: the force of the ball on the air equals the force of the air on the ball). Read more...

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