Over 45 million Americans are bowling fans, with national competitions awarding millions of dollars. Bowlers usually rely on the instincts and experiences they have acquired throughout many practices to increase their percentage of strikes. A team of physicists came up with mathematical models to better predict the trajectory of the ball. New paper Featured in Journal AIP Advances. The resulting equations take into account factors such as the composition of the oil used in bowling lanes and the resulting patterns, as well as the inevitable asymmetry of bowling balls and player variation.
The author already had a strong interest in bowling. The three are regular bowlers and are extremely skilled in sports. Curtis Hooper, the fourth at Longborough University in the UK, is the coach of Team England for the European Youth Championship. Hooper has been studying the physics of bowling for several years. analysis In addition to the 2017 Weber Cup, a paper devised a mathematical model. Applying lane conditioner and Oil pattern With bowling.
The calculations associated with such studies are extremely complicated as there are so many variables that can affect the trajectory of the ball after being thrown. Suitable Case: The thin layers of oil applied to bowling lanes discovered by Hooper can vary widely in volume and shape at different venues, and there is also a lack of uniformity when applying layers that create uneven frictional surfaces.
According to the authors, most previous studies rely on statistical analysis of empirical data, such as: 2018 Report By a US Bowling Conference examined data generated by 37 bowlers. (Hooper relied on ball tracking data for his 2017 Weber Cup analysis.) 2009 Analysis The optimal position for the ball to hit the head pin is about 6 cm from the center, and the optimal entry angle for the ball to hit is about 6 degrees. However, such an approach has a hard time explaining the inevitable player fluctuations. Bowler reaches 100% of the time, Hooper et al. According to the best experts don’t come within 0.1 degrees of the optimum launch angle, but even so, this slight variation can cause a few centimeters of down lane difference.
