Grip It and Rip It!
Explorations in Golf Ball Indentations
Appendix
Our main source of media for this project was the still Nikon D1 camera. Once the Stretchers, Corkers, and Poppers groups finished their work with the MotionScope 8000s, we used it with Dr. Winters' supervision for a day. As you can see in the right-hand side table in the videos, we filmed the videos at 1000 f/s (frames per second). We thought this would be fast enough to catch the ball being hit and the indentation going in and coming out. However, Tate's swing was so fast that the MotionScope 8000s could not capture what we were looking for even at 1000 f/s. We set the camera to 2000 f/s but the best videos hits were at 1000 f/s. We did not try to move up to 4000f/s because of limited light source (a bright lamp). Still, we were able to analyze the videos and attain another method of measuring the speed of the ball. Also, you can see what happens to the tee after contact which is interesting.
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