"The Golf Ball Paradox": throw a golf ball (or squash ball) into a cylinder and it pops back out (without touching the bottom)

Video by Steve Mould:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sbM2Isx17A

Mathematical analys:

(1) "Golfer's Dilemma", Marco Gualtieri et al, June 1 2006, American Journal of Physics, https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2180281

(2) "On a simple formulation of the golf ball paradox", O Pujol et al, Feruary 27 2007, European Journal of Physics, https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0807/28/2/024

nostr:npub1z2qdmfzhs2uwg8kmsh37xavt2hq48gch63e787ggd3s6mt8waxgsxu3yuf I thought this would interest you.

nostr:npub1uhnx67vlf04mwtt7qrjyx47gpmtf3twz4nrfmx9lspw6rrv5gkhsv42f8t Nice one ...

I like all of Steve's videos, they're really good.

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nostr:npub1z2qdmfzhs2uwg8kmsh37xavt2hq48gch63e787ggd3s6mt8waxgsxu3yuf nostr:npub1uhnx67vlf04mwtt7qrjyx47gpmtf3twz4nrfmx9lspw6rrv5gkhsv42f8t Yes. I reckon he does some great stuff.

And I am so with him on the fact that *anything* around rotation/gyroscopic type motion is a tough one to intuit!... follow the math, sure... but "understand it "intuitively"... argh!! Easier (for me) to intuit ideas in relativity and quantum. πŸ˜€