Math Behind the Golf Mishap
Math and physics explain the anguish of a golf ball that zings around the rim of the hole instead of falling in.
A "lip out" occurs when a golfer putts a ball, and it swings around the rim of the hole before escaping again.
- The most common kind of lip out happens when the ball is hit too hard and arrives offset from the center of the hole.
- This sets up a competition between two forms of angular momentum: the ball's rotational momentum and its momentum around the hole's rim.
For the putt to succeed, the angular momentum of the ball pitching down into the hole must overcome the angular momentum of it rotating around the hole's rim.
Researchers report their findings in Royal Society Open Science.
Author's summary: Math explains golf mishaps.
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