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Project 1: Analysis of A Golf Ball

This document outlines a project to analyze a golf ball for a golf ball manufacturing company. An engineering team was contracted to analyze a new golf ball design using video camera and launcher equipment to measure the ball's position over time as it travels up and down. The team must produce a report with graphs of position, velocity, and drag force over time based on the measurement data. They must also estimate drag parameters, predict terminal velocity, model the ball's trajectory for various launch angles and spins, and determine the optimal launch angle for maximum range. The report will help the company modify the ball design and propose rule changes to allow women to use a modified ball.

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Project 1: Analysis of A Golf Ball

This document outlines a project to analyze a golf ball for a golf ball manufacturing company. An engineering team was contracted to analyze a new golf ball design using video camera and launcher equipment to measure the ball's position over time as it travels up and down. The team must produce a report with graphs of position, velocity, and drag force over time based on the measurement data. They must also estimate drag parameters, predict terminal velocity, model the ball's trajectory for various launch angles and spins, and determine the optimal launch angle for maximum range. The report will help the company modify the ball design and propose rule changes to allow women to use a modified ball.

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Project 1

Analysis of a Golf Ball

Project Background
A Golf ball manufacturing company,

Golf Ball Inc. (GBI), has plans to


approach the USGA and the LPGA and
propose that the ladies be allowed to
use a modified golf ball to even the
field.

Basic problem
GBI has contracted your engineering team to

do the analysis of their new ball and to get


your recommendations on the further redesign of the ball.
You devise a simple device using a video
camera, a strobe light and a vertical launcher
to measure the position of the ball as it
travels up and down again. This data is
contained in the file H:\Golf_Fall03.txt and
shows the position of the ball above the
ground in meters.

Basic Data (excerpt)


Time (s)
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1

Position (m)
0
4.27
7.42
9.94
12.01
13.75
15.23
16.49
17.58
18.5
19.28

Team Task
Your team must produce a formal report

that will be submitted to your instructor


as if he is the supervising engineer at
GBI.
As a minimum the report must include
the items on the task list along with any
supporting calculations, data, theory,
etc.

Quick Process Preview

Drag and Numerical Methods

Concept of Drag
Drag is the retarding force exerted on a

moving body in a fluid medium


It does not attempt to turn the object,
simply to slow it down
It is a function of the speed of the body,
the size (and shape) of the body, and
the fluid through which it is moving
See Foundations pages 266-267

Dropping a Ping Pong Ball


If you dropped a ping pong ball down

the stairwell in this building (height 50


feet), and the stairwell had a vacuum in
it, how long would it take for the ping
pong ball to hit the floor?
If you left the air in the stairwell would it
take longer, shorter, or the same time to
hit the bottom?

Looking at the ball in detail


Drawing a Free Body

Diagram (FBD) of the ball


is shown to the right
Since all the drag force is
doing is slowing the ball
down, it is directly vertical
and upwards

FD=f(v)

FG=mg

Numerical Analysis
If you have two data points (time,

position), then you can approximate the


velocity of the body.
Given the points (2 s, -15m) and (2.1 s,
-17m), what is the approximate velocity
at 2.1 seconds?
If the next data point is (2.2 s, -19.05m),
what is the velocity at 2.2 seconds?

Solution

15m 17 m
m
V [@ 2.1]
20
(2 s 2.1s )

17 m 19.05m
m
V [@ 2.2]
20.5
(2.1s 2.2 s )

Now Find Acceleration


Given the velocities at 2.1s and 2.2s,

what is the acceleration at 2.2s?


Data points are (time, velocity):
(2.1s,

-20 m/s)
(2.2s, -20.5 m/s)

Acceleration Solution

A[@ 2.2]

m
m
20 20.5
s
s
m
5 2
2.1s 2.2 s
s

Continuing the process


The ultimate goal of this numerical

analysis is to find the drag force on the


body
Now that we have the acceleration, we
can find the total force acting on the
body (F=ma), the force of gravity
(Fg=mg), and Drag Force (F=Fg+FD)

Back to the Project

Explicit Task List

Task List
1. Produce three graphs: position,

velocity, and drag force vs. time for the


data obtained on the vertical launch.
2. Given that the actual value of n is 2,
estimate the appropriate value for k.
3. Predict the "terminal velocity" (that
velocity which the ball will reach if it is
left in free fall indefinitely).

Task List
4. Using numerical methods, determine

the trajectory of the golf ball when it is


launched with an initial speed of 225 ft/s
and an initial angle of 45 degrees.
Produce a graph of the position in X vs.
Y coordinates.

Task List
5. For the given velocity (225 feet per

second), what initial angle will produce


the maximum range (distance down
range while airborne)? What is the
maximum range?

Task List
6. When a ball is traveling through air and rotating,

there is a force created by the flow of the air around


the sphere that is perpendicular to the direction of
travel. This force is called the Magnus force. Top
spin tends to make the ball dip and backspin makes it
carry. This force is related to the rate of spin and the
velocity of the ball. It is this force that allows a
baseball to curve. The lift force has the same form
as drag, but operates perpendicular to the velocity
vector. Add this parameter to your solutions and
repeat steps 4 and 5 for various angles to account for
lift if the ball is hit with backspin spin resulting in a
Magnus parameter of 6.388 x 10-6.

Example Graph

Due Dates:
Part

Class Due

Class 12.1

2, 3, and 4

Class 13.1

5, 6, and Report

Class 14.1

Grading:
Part

Point Value

15

2, 3, and 4

10, 10 and 15

5, 6, and Report

15, 15 and 20

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