Re: .Bernoulli and curve balls.

["Paul Camp" <pjcamp@coastal.edu>]

This is obviously a pretty complicated problem. Try looking up:

L.J. Briggs, "Effect of Spin and Speed on the Lateral Deflection 
(Curve) of a Baseball; and the Magnus Effect for Smooth Spheres", Am. 
J. Phys, 27, p589 (1959). 


> > In fact, for a slowly spinning, slowly
> > pitched *smooth* ball, the curve can break the opposite way as the
> > air flow may be laminar on one side and turbulent on the other.
>
> The mythology is enhanced! What speed must the ball move (and spin)
> so that the airflow becomes laminar? To what precision must this
> condition be established and maintained?
>
> Leigh

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