Helping coaches and players streamline their learning systems, improve their performance, and further their understanding and enjoyment of the game, this book provides an entertaining and enlightening look at the physics behind how to use a racquet to change the speed and direction of a tennis ball. Distinguishing the science from the folklore and myth, it makes the physics of tennis understandable to players of all skill levels. Important issues such as the role of string tension, the meaning of power, the importance of swing weight, and the relevance of the various sweet spots are addressed. Athletes are shown how to play better tennis by obeying the laws of the universe, optimizing equipment for ultimate performance, and understanding the dynamics of tennis events. From speed-to-spin ratios and shock vibration scales to choosing string on a moist day, this guide covers it all.

The Physics and Technology of Tennis

Science & Math

Brody, Howard

Cross, Rod

Lindsey, Crawford

Technology

Racquet Tech Publishing

What are the single most important variables in racquet performance? What racquet and string features combine to provide the most control, comfort, and feel? How can a player create maximum spin? This informative primer answers these and other elusive equipment and performance-related questions that perennially plague hackers and experts alike. A simplified, layperson's companion to the authors' previous work, The Physics and Technology of Tennis, this conveniently sized guide to selecting racquets and strings includes bite-sized explanations of the possible expectations of equipment choices.

Technical Tennis: Racquets, Strings, Balls, Courts, Spin, and Bounce

Sports & Outdoors

Racket Sports

Physics of Baseball & Softball

This book teaches the physics of baseball and softball in conversational style, for those without extensive physics training, using words and illustrations that make sense. Includes simple experiments readers can perform, and appendices of supporting equations.

Mathematics

Springer

<div> When Australian model Caroline Byrne&rsquo;s crumpled body was discovered at the base of a cliff known as the Gap--a famous Sydney landmark and popular suicide spot--it was easy for both the public and police to assume her death was suicide. With no official crime scene established, no measurements or photographs taken into evidence, and no police logbooks recording the recovery of her body, Byrne's then-boyfriend Gordon Wood very nearly got away with murder--until forensic science conclusively proved that Caroline could not possibly have jumped. This gripping narrative provides a detailed account of the investigation from the forensic scientist who produced the crucial evidence that led to Wood&rsquo;s conviction. </div>

Evidence for Murder: How Physics Convicted a Killer

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

University of New South Wales Press

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