Spinning Flight Dynamics of Frisbees, Boomerangs, Samaras, and Skipping Stones /

• Main Author: Lorenz, Ralph D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2006.
• Subjects: Physics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Mechanics.; Astrophysics.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Applications of Mathematics.

More frisbees are sold each year than baseballs, basketballs, and footballs combined. Yet these familiar flying objects have subtle and clever aerodynamic and gyrodynamic properties which are only recently being documented by wind tunnel and other studies. In common with other rotating bodies discus...

Table of Contents:

• Aerodynamics of Balls
• Bouncing Balls, Airbags, and Tumbleweeds
• Spinning Bullets, Bombs, and Rockets
• Satellites and Spin
• Encountering Asteroids and Comets
• Planetary Probes and Spinning Parachutes
• Frisbees
• Spinning Cylinders and Rings
• Spinning Aircraft and Nonspinning Disc Aircraft
• The Boomerang
• Samaras
• Skipping Stones and Bouncing Bombs
• Conclusions.