The physics of tennis. III. The ball-racket interaction

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 981-987

  Brody, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 0031533475     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.18701     Document Type: Article

References (17)

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5. H. Brody, Tennis Science for Tennis Players (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA, 1987), p. 12.
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11. H. Brody, in Ref. 5, p. 36.
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13. Bat Speed Meter is also known as Quick Bat II, Sports-Star Co., P.O. Box 19640, Portland, OR 97280.
14. H. Brody, "That's How the Ball Bounces," Phys. Teach. 22, 494-497 (1984).
15. H. Brody, in Ref. 5, pp. 106-110.
16. A similar calculation is done in R. Cross, "The dead spot of a tennis racket," Am. J. Phys. 65, 754-764 (1997), except, in that article, the value of COR = 1.
17. S. Davis, Prince Sports Group (private communication).