Chronology Current Month Current Thread Current Date
[Year List] [Month List (current year)] [Date Index] [Thread Index] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Prev] [Date Next]

Re: squash ball question



I've never played racquetball, but I can assure you that these squash balls
are hollow. Another case of a transatlantic nomenclature shift?

Mark

Possibly. What we call squash uses something the sort of size and shape of
a badminton racket, but much beefier. The ball always seemed to me to be
fairly solid, very low coefficient of restitution when cold and only
slightly higher when warmed up by play. You really had to haul-off and
swat the ball. Playing it was murder on your tennis game.

Racquetball (sp?) on the other hand you use a paddle somewhat like a beefed
up ping pong paddle but it is strung instead of solid. The ball was larger
in diameter and definitely hollow and has a fair amount of restitution even
when cold.

Dewey


+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dewey I. Dykstra, Jr. Phone: (208)426-3105
Professor of Physics Dept: (208)426-3775
Department of Physics/MCF421/418 Fax: (208)426-4330
Boise State University dykstrad@email.boisestate.edu
1910 University Drive Boise Highlanders
Boise, ID 83725-1570 novice piper: GHB, Uilleann

"As a result of modern research in physics, the ambition and hope,
still cherished by most authorities of the last century, that physical
science could offer a photographic picture and true image of reality
had to be abandoned." --M. Jammer in Concepts of Force, 1957.

"If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make
reality the basis of our philosophy? ...But we cannot distinguish
what is real about the universe without a theory...it makes no sense
to ask if it corresponds to reality, because we do not know what
reality is independent of a theory."--S. Hawking in Black Holes
and Baby Universes, 1993.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++