Wednesday, February 3, 2010

The Physics of Mike Fagan's Bowling

Most people don't think of sports as physics exercises, but, really, how could you redefine what bowling is? Bowling is trying to most efficiently get the momentum of the ball into as many different pins as possible.
--Jeff Lieberman

In the wake of Mike Fagan's great bowling last week in the Dick Weber Open, below is a fascinating segment I saw sometime back on a program called "Time Warp" in which the physics of bowling in general and of Fagan's unique armswing and release in particular are analyzed scientifically.


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