Impact Problems of Balls in Tennis and Golf

Nihon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, C Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part C

Volumn 64, Issue 623, 1998, Pages 2318-2327

  Haake, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ball; Golf; Impact; Rebound; Sports Engineering; Surface; Tennis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990353009     PISSN: 03875024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1299/kikaic.64.2318     Document Type: Article

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