Phyisics of golf
...fore hitting or putting the golf ball it initially stays at rest because of Newton’s first law. There is no unbalanced forces action on the ball so therefore there is no movement. Newton’s second law states the force equals the acceleration times the mass. The amount of force that you apply on the golf ball depends on the acceleration of the club. The faster the acceleration of the club the more force will be exerted on the ball. The acceleration of the club depends on the amount of force you exert on the club during your downswing. The more force you exert the greater the acceleration will be. The displacement of the ball will depend on the amount of force that is exerted on it at impact. The more force will result in a greater acceleration which will result in the greatest displacement. Newton’s third law states that when an object exerts a force onto another object the other object will exert an opposite and equal amount of force back to the first object. They law applies when you are putting or driving the golf ball. When you hit the golf ball the exact amount of force is exerted back to the club. Since the force is not great enough to impede to the continuation of the swing it is unnoticeable. The forces in golf are mainly involved with the equipment and not the people. Golf is individual, non-contact sport so therefore there is no force exerted on the golfer by other people. The only force that is exerted on the golfer is gravitational force, however that force is balanced with the reaction force form the ground. Gravitational force is the main force that acts on the golf ball when it is in the air. Gravitational force causes the ball to fall. There is also air resistance, which is a frictional force that causes that ball to slow down and fall and Magnus force, which will determine if the ball slices, draw or goes straight depending on the rotation of the ball acting on the ball in the air. Furthermore, there is a force exerted on the club by the golfer in the golf swing, and there is a force that the clubface exerts on the ball as the clubface hits it. The force of friction is an important factor while putting the golf ball. When putting, the golf ball with eventually stop because of fiction counteracting the force that the golfer applied when he/she hit the ball. The coefficient of friction will be greater or smaller depending on the thinness and length of the grass on the green. When putting the golfer must asses how much force to apply on the golf ball so that the golf ball will not stop before it reaches the hole. The main aspects of design, equipment, or performance that are related to the physics of motion are the different clubs and their different clubface angles used in golf, the dimples on the golf ball and the rotation of the golf ball when it is in the air. In golf there are a variety of clubs for the golfer to use. Each club has a different clubface angle starting with the driver which has the least amount of clubface to the putting wedge which has the most amounts. If the clubface angle in large then the club is capable of hitting the ball with more loft. If the clubface angle is small then the club is capable of hitting the ball a greater distance. The spin of...