Football and Rugby Gorillas

[Cloud Breaker]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMeqlqo26Ok

I want to know what aspect of physics makes a ball travel a hyperbolic trajectory like that.

My guess is that the spinning motion of the football creates slight drag that makes the ball curve towards the direction of the ball's spin.

 

[Raz]

No ****.

 

[Cloud Breaker]

Right. Any more explanations?

 

[Dindi]

Its a football not a soccer ball.

 

[Cloud Breaker]

Its a football not a soccer ball.

A discrepancy between American English and British English, I surmise?

It sounds weird saying football ball.

 

[Cloud Breaker]

Football.

Now help me answer my questions.

 

[Lost-Lamb]

My guess is that the spinning motion of the football creates slight drag that makes the ball curve towards the direction of the ball's spin.

This.

Now why on dogs green earth would you want more answers? considering they'd all be wrong.

 

[Cloud Breaker]

Thanks.

 

[Pharaoh Llandy]

95% of the forum aren't American

I blame you all for driving them off.

 

[Ruthven]

95% of the forum aren't American

I blame you all for driving them off.

Blame?

 

[Pharaoh Llandy]

I stand most humbly corrected. Flowers and chocolates are in the post, o'brave warriors of fortune.

 

[Gculk]

It's not football ball, it's football. A football. A ball that's used in football. And I hardly see why one would have to even consider using "Soccer" here, seeing as 95% of the forum aren't American

Canada says soccer too. 

 

[leprechaun]

That's not the whole story, L-L. Gravity gives it that awesome downward curve, too

 

[fisheye]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_effect

 

[leprechaun]

"German physicist Heinrich Magnus first described the effect in 1853, but according to James Gleick [2] Isaac Newton described it and correctly theorised the cause 180 years earlier, after observing tennis players in his Cambridge college."

What, Isaac Newton will discover this effect in 2033?

Jesus.

 

[Iberon]

"German physicist Heinrich Magnus first described the effect in 1853, but according to James Gleick [2] Isaac Newton described it and correctly theorised the cause 180 years earlier, after observing tennis players in his Cambridge college."

What, Isaac Newton will discover this effect in 2033?

Jesus.

Say what? 180 years earlier than 1853 isn't 2033.

 

[leprechaun]

Oh bollocks, I read 'after'.

 

[italiano]

It's not football ball, it's football. A football. A ball that's used in football. And I hardly see why one would have to even consider using "Soccer" here, seeing as 95% of the forum aren't American

Canada says soccer too. 

And Canadians are also Americans

That's one way to ruffle the feathers of a Canadian .

Football is the only football code that is actually played soley with the feet, so I think the name is appropriate. American 'Football' on the other hand would be more appropriately referred to as 'handball', or Kindergarten.

 

[Fall of Denial]

Nardills got you there.

 

[Suspect-Device]

American football shall now be referred to as rugby for pussies