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Re: [Phys-l] football orientation in flight



I dug in my files and found "Why Does a Football Keep its Axis Pointing
Along its Trajectory" by Peter J. Brancazio Physics teacher December 1985
pps 571-573 (sorry I did not write volume number etc down)
Basically conservation of angular momentum. He compares the football motion
with a gyroscope.

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Jeffrey Schnick <JSchnick@anselm.edu>
wrote:

Here's a question I got from one of my students that I would appreciate
your input on: Why does a football, in the case of a long pass, tip
over during the course of its flight so that it is always pointing, to
at least a pretty good approximation, in the direction of its velocity,
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