Speaker
Mr
Gaëtan Landry
(Dalhousie University)
Description
The bouncing of sports balls is often characterized in terms of the coefficient of restitution, which represents the ratio of the after-impact velocity to the before-impact velocity. While the behaviour of the coefficient of restitution as a function of the internal pressure of the ball has been studied, no theoretical justification has been given for any parametric curve fitted to the data. In this talk, we present a mechanistic model of the ball, leading to a simple two-parameter fit. The model will be compared to several commonly available sports balls.
Primary authors
Dr
Alex Georgallas
(Dalhousie University)
Mr
Gaëtan Landry
(Dalhousie University)
