Physics of The 2022 World Cup with John Eric Goff
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How to Measure a Ball in a Wind Tunnel?
When you put one of these, this is the Brzuka, when you put this at a wind tunnel, you have to destroy it. And we can measure the forces felt when the air is blowing over the ball. We could also do trajectory analysis where the ball can be actually kicked or even shot through a ball launcher with spin. By analyzing the trajectory, we can extract the aerodynamic coefficient from that.
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