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Now, that's why bullets and shells don't curve like a baseball. The benefit they get from curving comes from gyroscopic stability. The round will not tumble in the air as easily if it's spinning quickly.
Nope. Curveballs curve left and right due to rotation about the direction of motion.
Actually, sorry. You were right. It's been a while since I threw a curveball.
Curveballs curve left and right due the component of rotation about an axis perpendicular to the ground. The Magnus force is nil when all rotation is about the direction of motion.
I had completely forgotten the action when you throw a curveball. In my mind I was remembering the baseball spinning like a bullet, but then that wasn't making any sense from a physics point of view.
The plus side is that now I remember how to throw one...
You have to break your wrist at the last second so that when you release the ball your palm is almost directly facing you. You should have twisted hard enough so that your thumb makes an audible "snap" into your palm...
Never pitched in baseball. I was thinking more of cricket, but that has as much to do with shine on the ball and weather conditions when in the air and pitch condition on bounce.
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What about the curve of a free kick in football? I would have thought that was effected by the change in relative air pressure on each side of the spinning ball?
OTOH would that only have an effect with an X axis spin as opposed to a Z-axis spin relative to the direction of motion?
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Why does a gyroscope resist changes to the direction of its axis?
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