tomservo552 asked:
What is a good estimate for the spring constant of the golf ball (assuming that it behaves like a Hooke’s Law spring under compression)?
Delicia Macey
What is the spring constant of the golf ball?
Posted by Jeff on August 26, 2008 in Golf Balls · 2 Comments
For calculating the force which is required the more you stretch hookes law is more you in the formula for calculating the larger the behavior of the force of the more force which is basically explaining the spring is more force of the behavior of the larger the formula for.
well… my best answer for this question would be to think of the “spring constant” as gravity. The reason i say gravity is because if you were to drop a golf ball from a certain height, it would of course, bounce. But the height of the bounce would not be as high as the original height at which the ball was dropped. So this also proves true in the case of a spring with a certain spring constant. When you have a spring and block attached to the end, when the system is oscillating, the spring will not go to the original point at which the spring was pulled… Dropping a golf ball and witnessing the bounces is much easier to see than the difference in oscillations of a block and spring.
I hope i was able to answer your question… or at least give you another way to look at it…