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Re: pool table physics



This matches my remembered (from long ago) experience.

bc

P.s. Bill Walker (UCSB) suggested, but never done, we go to the local pool
hall and play snooker to learn some practical newtonian mechanics.

Clarence Bennett wrote:

No, Herb.

I think the channels that sort out the balls as they sink into the pockets
lead the numbers through tight holes to a trap, released by the coin, but
the cue ball, being too large for the hole, is diverted to the tray at one
end of the table, so that the game can continue.

I haven't looked inside, so this is speculation.

Clarence P. Bennett
bennett@oakland.edu
Oakland University Physics
248 370 3418
Rochester, MI 48309