The angle of incidence is relative to the surface normal, not the surface itself. It's 0 degrees as the club face contacts the ball, not 45.
-- john, KE5FX > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Palfreyman, Jim L > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 8:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [time-nuts] OT: Not pendulums or atomic clocks or gravity > > Since you have all enjoyed this discussion on rotating non-inertial > frames of reference so much, here's another one for you. > > In golf, a typical pitching wedge has an angle of 45 degrees. Since > angle of incidence equals angle of reflection why doesn't the ball > bounce off the club, go straight up and hit you in the face? (A good > golfer would hit it 100m.) > > > Jim Palfreyman > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
