Recent content by Omegared

a lot of sites explain the pressure differences on the top or bottom of a ball as the result of the ball changing the speed of the air. For example a spinning ball like in my blue diagram above would have the top spinning in the same directrion as the airflow speeding it up causing low pressure...

maybe i my question wasn't clear enough (sorry). My problem wasnt with the speed of spin of the ball. But how the actual increase in forward speed of the ball can make a baseball curve better for the same amount of spin as implied in this site right here http://www.100.nist.gov/curverelease.htm...

what happens if we add more speed to a spinning baseball thanks for helping me out Ok I understand that a spinning ball creates lift. And that’s what makes a baseball curve But I am kind of curious how to increase the lifting force and create more lift (obviously just add more spin) but I...

i think i finally got it! Thank you very much for getting back to me. I have been going over your response and some other websites and though physics is not one of my strong points I think I started to understand what is going on. And I would just like to check with you to see if I understand...

i think they are a bit different Well Berkeman I am glad you went back to my original post and read it and noticed the difference I am also glad you decided to reopen this topic. The problems i am having(in both threads) are with air seperating from the surface of a baseball But in this post...

come on can't someone please help

thanks for the help thanks for answering if anyone els can contibute please do i have some follow up queestions to some of the responses that i will post here a little later until then if anyone else would like to contribute please do!

finally in my search to understand why the boundary layer separates from the surface of a baseball I have come to understand that the reasons for the separation of the boundary layer from a baseball is incredibly similar to the separation of the boundary layer from a wing of an airplane after...

a question on boundary layers viscosity and air seperating from a ball I have a few questions that have to do with a viscosity on the surface of an object, the boundary layer and the boundary layer separating from the surface of a baseball! 1) my first question is if we had a stationary...

i am not sure where i shoul post this topic?? I have a few questions on boundary layers viscosity and air seperating from a baseball where would be the right place to post these questions? they are not the simple home work questions by the way?

hmmm would it be possible to some how post the pictures directly in with the question like on a word document notr as an attachment? the questions i have are kind of confusing and the pictures make them so much clearer!

it didn't work sorry

well i have a few important questions to ask and i would like to post some pictures to make them as clear as possible (i would prefer if they could be seen with the question not as a link) and i was wondering if someone could please show me how. here is a test i am not sure if it will work...