Simulating the Motion in a Synthesised Environment
In this chapter, we discuss the algorithm and numerical techniques that we use to simulate a golf ball’s motion in a synthesised golf course environment. The physical models that govern the motion of the ball are integrated with the golf course environmen
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Golf and Wind The Physics of Playing Golf in Wind
Golf and Wind
Shantanu Malik Sandeep Saha •
Golf and Wind The Physics of Playing Golf in Wind
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Shantanu Malik Department of Aerospace Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
Sandeep Saha Department of Aerospace Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
ISBN 978-981-15-9719-0 ISBN 978-981-15-9720-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9720-6
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“Golf is no longer a game of hitting the ball, finding it, and hitting it again. There is wind to be measured, whether that means tossing blades of grass in the air or studying the gentle movement of 60-foot high branches. There are caddie conferences for even the most routine shots. There are sports psychologists who tell players not to hit until they’re ready.” —Doug Ferguson, (PGA Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism, 2019)
Preface
Golf as a sport is almost inevitably viewed as a game of the privileged and most often beyond the reach of the commoners. Though this might be true in practice, there is very little which prevents an enthusiastic physicist or an astute student of aerodynamics to wonder about the motion of a golf ball. There is no reason to suspect that such curiosity would be missing in an experienced golfer who perhaps is able to visualise the motion of the golf ball before playing the shot but knows little about the physics behind it. Perhaps a novice golfer would also
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